https://padlet.com/stinewangs/v8jh0wh64hiw In pairs: Choose three central quotes from the text en-us 2018-01-05 09:05:03 UTC 2018-01-05 09:49:34 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/stinewangs/v8jh0wh64hiw/wish/218903305 "While in later life Wordsworth and Coleridge retreated into reactionary conservatism, William Blake maintained his revolutionary spirit."

"William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge worked together on the Lyrical Ballads (1798). The book is a landmark in English literature, marking the beginning of a new era."

"The poet was considered to be a supremely individual creator, who gave freedom to his creative spirit. (...) For the first time in the history of English literature, writers could find their own audience in a freer cultural context and truly be, ad Word"]]> 2018-01-05 09:36:09 UTC https://padlet.com/stinewangs/v8jh0wh64hiw/wish/218903305 https://padlet.com/stinewangs/v8jh0wh64hiw/wish/218903358 "Imagination was the special faculty which set the artist apart from his fellow men. Through the power of imagination, the poet could imitate the process of divine creativity." (p. 115) 

"The outstanding litterary achievement of the Romantic poets was not always appreciated by their contemporaries. Many writers of the period dismissed their work as insignificant. Allthough the anti-Romantics campaign continued, notably in the work of Matthew Arnold and T.S. Elliot, the Romantic period is regarded by the most literary critics as the golden age of English poetry." (p. 116) 

"Blake relied heavily on symbolism in his poetry. Some of the symbols are immediately understandable: innocence represented by children, flowers, lambs. The symbolism in some of his later poems is less easy to interpret and has been the subject of much heated debate." (p. 118)

]]> 2018-01-05 09:36:46 UTC https://padlet.com/stinewangs/v8jh0wh64hiw/wish/218903358 https://padlet.com/stinewangs/v8jh0wh64hiw/wish/218903399 "The poet was considered to be a supremely individual creator, who gave freedom to his creative spirit"

"Not surprisingly, the heroes of many romantic novels and poems are social outcasts" (For example Frankenstein)

"Although some romantic poets adapted the classical form of the ode and used elements of Greek mythology in their work, they rejected the idea of imitating classical models as too restrictive of the creative imagination"]]> 2018-01-05 09:36:59 UTC https://padlet.com/stinewangs/v8jh0wh64hiw/wish/218903399 https://padlet.com/stinewangs/v8jh0wh64hiw/wish/218903474 "The poets of the first generation, William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, were greatly influenced by the French Revolution, which they considered to be almost a physical realization of the ideals of Romanticism, representing, as it did, a breaking free from the restrictive patterns of the past" (p. 4)

"The poems deal with 'low' subjects - rural life, rustic characters and are written in simple and unelaborated expressions" (p. 5)

"Fleeing from the hypocrises and spiritual emptiness of the Industrial Revolution, the Romantics took refuge in what they considered to be the superior nobility of the past" (p. 3)]]> 2018-01-05 09:37:33 UTC https://padlet.com/stinewangs/v8jh0wh64hiw/wish/218903474 https://padlet.com/stinewangs/v8jh0wh64hiw/wish/218903497 "The term was initially used in the mid-seventeenth century in a derogatory way.  It was thought that the characters and settings of the medieval sagas were unrealistic and so the term "romantic" was used to mean "exaggerated, unconvincing"."

"The Romantic writer viewed himself as a prophet preaching in the wilderness, a gifted visionary who lived outside respectable society."

"(...) the Romantic nostalgia for the past. Fleeing from the hypocrisies and spiritual emptiness of the Industrial Revolution, the Romantics took refuge in what they considered to be the superior nobility of the past."]]> 2018-01-05 09:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/stinewangs/v8jh0wh64hiw/wish/218903497 pernillekjemtrup https://padlet.com/stinewangs/v8jh0wh64hiw/wish/218903506 "The word 'romantic' used to mean 'exaggerated, unconvincing'. Later it took on a positiv meaning and was used to describe the expression of personal feelings and emotions." 

"The Romantic poets considered nature to be morally upliftning - a kind of spiritual experience."

"The outstanding literary achievement of the Romantic poets was not always appreciated by their contemporaries. Many writers of the period dismissed their work as insignificant."]]> 2018-01-05 09:37:43 UTC https://padlet.com/stinewangs/v8jh0wh64hiw/wish/218903506