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The conceit of the sublime was taken up especially by Wordsworth and Coleridge. According to Wordsworth, the Sublime was something "impossible of attaining" by the human mind and an extraordinary source of inspiration.
Coleridge's idea of Sublime is slightly different: he thought that what makes Nature sublime are its boundless elements, such as the sky or the sea.

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One of the peculiarities of the Romantic poetry was the concept of sublime, which defined a new conception of sensibility. The sublime is a feeling associated by the Romantic poets with strong emotions, caused by the infinite of Nature and its fearful pheonomena:  the English Romantics viewed the Sublime as a source of pleasure and as an experience beyond rational thought.

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Wordsworth and Coleridge

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Queen Victoria

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge was born in 1772 in Devonshire. After being disillusioned with the French Revolution, he tried to set up a utopian community in Pennsylvania, but completely failed. His masterpiece is "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner",which is a ballad divided into seven parts. In 1810 he moved to London,where he composed "Biographia Literaria", a classic text of literary criticism and autobiography. He died in 1834 because of heart attack.

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William Wordsworth was born in 1770 in Cumberland, in northwestern England,in a wealthy family. After a journey in France, he took up the democratic values of the French Revolution, but he later changed his ideals. This disillusionment was healed by contact with nature: in 1795 he moved with his sister Dorothy to Dorset and thanks to the relationship with nature he found the source of inspiration and wrote in 1807 "Poems in Two Volumes", one of his most important works; in this collection Wordsworth exalts the rule of nature and the importance of feelings and senses. Besides his masterpiece, "The Prelude", he wrote the collection entitled "Lyrical Ballads" with his friend Samuel Coleridge. He died in 1850 from an aggravated case of pleurisy.

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After William Blake, the first generation of Romantic authors included the so-called Lake Poets, who owed their nickname to their land of origin, the lake district of England. Among these poets were William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge.

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William Blake's masterpiece.

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Robert Burns

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The first period of the Romantic Age in England is usually defined as "Pre-Romanticism";
Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist and one of the most remarkable author of this period;
another precursory of the English Romanticism is William Blake, a "prophetic author" and painter. His masterpiece, "Songs of Innocence and of Experience",describes the industrial society and the exaltation of Imagination.

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It is the collection of works and poems be William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge and it is defined as the Manifesto of English Romanticism

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Concerning the English literature, the Romantic Age usually begins with the publication of the "Lyrical Ballads" in 1798 and ends with the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837.

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Several import reforms were made, the most important being:
- Slavery Abolition Act 1832: which abolished slavery throughout the British Empire;
- A system of national education was introduced in 1834;
- Factory Acts 1883: which prohibited the employment of children under 9; the Parliament controlled the working conditions of children and women.

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About 150 seats were taken away from the so-called rotten boroughs, which were electoral borough that was able to elect an MP, despite representing a very small section of voters, and being easily controlled by one person or family.

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Also known as the Great Reform Act, this act was passed to reform the British electoral system.

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During WIlliam IV's reign the Whigs came to power after a long period of Tory hegemony. They passed several important reforms.

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In 1829, the Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel created the Metropolitan Police, a policing service serving London and then England. Thus, he was able to maintain order without the Army.

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With the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1829, Catholics obtained mostly the same rights as Protestants.

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The government recognised the newly-formed nations in South America, supported the Greek revolution and the Risorgimento in Italy.

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George IV’s reign was a period of reforms. The Tories, then in power, were against any interference of the State in economic matters at home or in the internal affairs of other countries.

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The seconf half of George III's reign was characterized by the long struggle against Napoleon. After the war, Britain was exhausted by heavy taxation, inflation, unemployment and social unrest.

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Ludwig Van Beethoven

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Romanticism is almost synonym of Art and what really surprises is the singularity of Visual Arts: the artist's aim is to represent feelings, which are the peculiarity of any Romantic work.

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The highest representative of the Romantic culture was German composer  Ludwig Van Beethoven, whose masterpiece is the "Fifth Symphony".

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The Romantic influence promoted a progress in the philosophical debate, whose protagonists were Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Friedrich  Schelling and Georg Hegel.

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The Romantic Age brought about great changes in every cultural field.

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The Spanish and Portuguese colonies broke off from the motherland and became sovereign states.

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Patriotic revolutionary movements spread throughout the whole continent, paving the way for the creation of the Italy, Germany and Greece.

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Each aspect of this movement is distinguished by specific features and values, which are:

Criticism of the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism;

Exaltation of feelings;

New consideration of religion and magic;

Duality nature-civilazation and individual- world;

Patriotism, which cames from the interest in Middle Ages;

"Sehnsucht", desire to experience a utopic kind of reality;

New ideal of artist;

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Romanticism was a cultural and intellectual movement that appeared in Germany after the Age of Enlightenment;
Its values and themes spread among the major European nations and had a decisive influence on the development of modern societies.

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As a reaction to the new distribution of former French puppet states among the winners on Napoleon at the Vienna Congress (1814), the idea of nation was born and was based on the common past history of ethnicities and geographical areas.