Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism
emotions.
and it prized wit over imagination.
Johnson.
Romanticism:
A movement in art and literature in the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries in revolt against the
Neoclassicism of the previous centuries.
"literature depicting emotional matter in an
imaginative form."
Imagination, emotion, and freedom are certainly the
focal points of romanticism.
subjectivity and an emphasis on individualism;
spontaneity; freedom from rules; solitary life rather
than life in society.
the beliefs that imagination is superior to reason and
devotion to beauty; love of and worship of nature; and
fascination with the past, especially the myths and
mysticism of the middle ages.
English poets: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and
John Keats
Factors of emergence
Oriental mysticism
French Revolution
Samuel Coleridge
Definition of Poetry
“A spontaneous overflow of powerful
feelings recollected in tranquility.” William
Wordsworth
- Secondary imagination
The Solitary Reaper
William Wordsworth