-Romanticism had a new view of the artist as a supremely

individual creator, whose creative spirit is more important than the strict formal rules and traditional methods.

-Romanticism emphasis upon imagination as a gateway to

transcendent experience and spiritual truth.

-There was an obsessive interest in folk culture, national

and ethnic cultural origin.

-Romanticism bore a complex connection to the predominating bourgeois world views, which were broadly rationalist, empiricist, individualist, and utilitarian.

- Some of the Romantics, such as Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, initially saw the French Revolution as a great start of the new era of individual and social liberation.

-Shelley, Byron, and Victor Hugo were passionate in their

appeals for justice and liberation from oppressive social conventions and political regimes.

-Generally, all Romantic views of literature was a strong individualism based on the authority of experience and, a broadly democratic orientation, optimistic, and Utopian belief in progress.

Romantics, including Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Byron, reacted against the bourgeois social and economic order by seeking spiritual relief through mysticism, nature, and Rousseau's dreams of a simple, primitive life. They favored the language of real life, exalting childhood innocence and reviving primitive forms like folktales and ballads. Romantics viewed nature as a living force, united by divine spirit, and infused with symbolism based on its moral and emotional connection to human subjectivity.

Coleridge referred to nature as the “language

of God.”

Unlike the traditional view that portrays humanity as inherently flawed, this optimistic stance suggests that negative behaviors arise from social and cultural circumstances rather than human nature itself. It encourages the belief in human capacity for compassion, cooperation, and moral growth.

Overall, this viewpoint advocates for social justice and supportive environments that enable individuals to realize their full potential, promoting values that reflect the inherent goodness of humanity.

Characteristics

• The emphasis of the expression of personal emotions.

.A strong belief in individualism

• Stressing the role of the imagination

.Focusing on nature as the source of inspiration, and as a spiritual healer.

• A general exaltation of emotion over reason

, A preoccupation with the genius, the hero, and the exceptional figure in general and a focus on his or her passions and inner struggles; a new view of the artist as a supremely individual creator, Some of the Romantics, such as Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, initially saw the French Revolution as heralding the dawn of a new era of individual and social liberation s, and the medieval era.

Some of the Romantic figures, including Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Byron, opposed some of the central features of the new bourgeois social and economic Wordsworth held that the poet should emulate the language of real life; he, along with Blake and Coleridge, For the. Romantics,nature was transfigured into a living force, held together as a unity by the breath of the divine spirit. It was infused with a comprehensive symbolism resting on its profound moral and emotional connection with human subjectivity. Coleridge referred to nature as the “language of God.”

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-many of the Romantics, such as Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Byron,reacted against certain central features of the new bourgeois social and economic order.

-Appalled by the squal or and the mechanized, competitive routine of the citiesas well as by the moral mediocrity of a bourgeois world they turned for spiritual relief to mysticism, to nature, to Rousseauistic dreams of a simple, primitive, and uncorrupted life,

-Romantic writers – in tune with growing nationalistic sentiments – revived primitive forms such as the folktale and the ballad.

-For the Romantics, nature was transfigured into a living force, held together as a unity by the breath of the divine spirit

Coleridge referred to nature as the “language of God.”

the moral mediocrity of a bourgeois world given over to what Shelley called the principles of utility and calculation

Wordsworth held that the poet should emulate the language of real life; he, along with Blake and Coleridge, exalted the state of childhood and innocence of perception, untainted by conventional education

revived primitive forms such as the folktale and the ballad. Nature, for the Romantics,

For the Romantics, nature was transfigured into a living force, held together as a unity by the breath of the divine spirit. It was infused with a comprehensive symbolism resting on its profound moral and emotional connection with human subjectivity

Coleridge referred to nature as the "language of God."

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- Some of the Romantics, such as Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, initially saw the French Revolution as a great start of the new era of individual and social liberation.

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-Shelley, Byron, and Victor Hugo were passionate in their

appeals for justice and liberation from oppressive social conventions and political regimes.

-Generally, all Romantic views of literature was a strong individualism based on the authority of experience and, a broadly democratic orientation, optimistic, and Utopian belief in progress.

Romantics, including Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Byron, reacted against the bourgeois social and economic order by seeking spiritual relief through mysticism, nature, and Rousseau's dreams of a simple, primitive life.

They favored the language of real life, exalting childhood innocence and reviving primitive forms like folktales and ballads. Romantics viewed nature as a living force, united by divine spirit, and infused with symbolism based on its moral and emotional connection to human subjectivity.

Coleridge referred to nature as the “language

of God

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