The Romantic Movement
Prepared by Sameh M. Y
the romantic movement in poetry means one of the two things : the first one is that romantic poetry can be referred to the poetry written in 19th century by the British poets who specialized in this type of writing. The second one is , any poetry that deals with romantic themes , including love , nature , loneliness , loss , beauty , and the like. ( Furst , 1969 : 39 ).
Romanticism is an artistic , literary and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak at the period from 1800 t0 1850. Romanticism partly comes as a reaction of industrial revolution. It was also a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and reaction against the scientific rationalization of the nature. It is also a revolt against the restricted rules of puritanism. Romanticism was embodied most strongly in living arts , music and poetry , but it has a major trail on historiography education and the nature sciences. ( Menhennet , 1981 : 11 )
Romantic movement was rooted in the German strum an Drang movement which prized intuition and emotion over Enlightenment rationalism , the ideologies and events of the French revolution laid the background from which both Romanticism and the counter- Enlightenment emerged. The chains of the industrial revolution also had their influence on Romantic movement which was in part on escape from modern realities ; indeed in the second half of the 19th century (Menhennet , 1981 : 17 )
The salient features of poetry during the romantic movement started when William Wordsworth and S.T Coleridge published their "lyrical Ballads " to create the inception of the English Romantic movement. These features include : love , and worship of nature and dislike for the citified life , love for Medieval Age , love for supernatural and musical literary work came to be regarded as the unprompted expression of the poet's own subject feeling and didn't conform to poetic traditions of classical doctrines , however the subjects of the age were often ordinary people as well as concentrating on passion , emotion , romantic feeling and nature of romantic poetry was written in familiar everyday language for all ranks regardless their own position upper class or down class. ( Anon , notes , Retrieved 19, Nov ,2013 from www.enotes.com ).
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