ROMANTICISM ERA OF
POETRY
BY: GABRIEL ROBLEDO, ASHLEY SLAUGHTER, MYA DILMAR, MATTIE KING
THE ERA OF ROMANTICISM
• THE ROMANTICISM ERA TOOK PLACE IN A TIME BETWEEN 1770 AND 1870.
• IT WAS INSPIRED
ON THE BASIS OF “ART AS INSPIRATION, THE SPIRITUAL AND AESTHETIC
DIMENSION OF NATURE, AND METAPHORS OF ORGANIC GROWTH”(VANSPANCKEREN).
• WRITINGS
STARTED TO BECOME MORE EMOTIONAL BECAUSE OF THIS NEW INSPIRATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT ON NATURE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FEELINGS.
• ROMANTICISM IDEAS THEN “SHIFTED MORE TO CULTURAL NATIONALISM
ORIGINS” (WRITERS HISTORY - ROMANTICISM).
• EVEN LATER IDEAS TURNED TO THE DARK SIDE BY FINDING
SUPERNATURAL” (WRITERS HISTORY - ROMANTICISM).
• MANY DIFFERENT GENRES
AND NATIONAL
AN “INTEREST IN HORROR AND THE
OF WRITING BEGAN TO CROP UP, MOST WITH CONFLICTING INTERESTS
AND BELIEFS WHICH MAKES THIS ERA SO UNIQUE.
SIGNIFICANT AUTHORS
• EDGAR ALLEN POE IS ONE OF THE MORE FAMOUS AUTHORS
DURING THIS ERA AND PREFERRED
TO WRITE IN THE DARK TONES PORTRAYED IN MOST OF HIS WORKS.
THE PART OF YOUR MIND THAT BORDERS ON INSANITY.
• WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
HE PREFERRED
TO NIP ON
WAS MORE OF THE ROMANTIC TYPE OF WRITER EVEN WITH THE
AMOUNT OF TRAGEDIES IN HIS LIFE.
HE IS MOST FAMOUSLY KNOWN FOR “THE PRELUDE.”
• JANE AUSTEN WAS A FAMOUS FEMALE AUTHOR MOST NOTABLE FOR HER WORKS IN THE GENRE
OF ROMANCE. A WONDERFUL EXAMPLE OF THIS WOULD BE THE BOOK EMMA.
SIGNIFICANT WORKS
• CONCORD HYMN BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON IS A SHORT POEM THAT SUMS UP THE
SACRIFICE AND SPIRIT OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT AT THE BATTLE OF CONCORD. THIS WAS SUNG
AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CONCORD MONUMENT.
• THE PRELUDE BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH IS A WORK THAT CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED AS A
WORK OF ART. HIS BEAUTIFUL WAY WITH DESCRIPTIONS SHINES THE BRIGHTEST HERE WHICH
MAKES THIS THE MOST FAMOUS OF HIS WORKS.
• ROBERT SOUTHEY’S GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS IS A CLASSIC THAT MANY STILL
REMEMBER TODAY. THOUGH, THE ORIGINAL EMPHASIZED THE WICKEDNESS OF THE GIRL, AN
OLD WOMAN HERE, AND THE HOSPITALITY OF THE BEARS.
TIMELINE
1770-1790: THE BOSTON MASSACRE, TEA ACT TAKES EFFECT, BRITISH AND COLONISTS FIGHT IN
BOSTON, BRITISH END HOSTILITIES IN AMERICA, SLAVERY ABOLISHED IN
MASSACHUSETTS, TREATY OF PARIS SIGNED, POST-WAR DEPRESSION SETS IN,
CONGRESS PASSES FIRST TAX, CONGRESS SUBMITS 12 PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL
AMENDMENTS.
1791-1810: FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT PASSED, JOHN ADAMS VOTED SECOND PRESIDENT, CONGRESS
PASSES ALIEN AND SEDITION ACTS, U.S. CAPITAL MOVED FROM PHILADELPHIA TO
D.C., NEW YORK PASSES EMANCIPATION ACT, OHIO OUTLAWS SLAVES, LOUISIANA
PURCHASE, LEWIS AND CLARK’S EXPEDITION, JAMES MADISON ELECTED PRESIDENT.
TIMELINE
1811-1830: WAR OF 1812, BRITISH BURN CAPITOL BUILDING IN WASHINGTON, NAPOLEON DEFEATED
AT WATERLOO, MISSOURI COMPROMISE, ERIE CANAL COMPLETED, JEFFERSON AND
ADAMS DIE ON JULY 4TH, ANDREW JACKSON ELECTED, GEORGIA PROHIBITS SLAVE
EDUCATION.
1831-1850: MARTIN VAN BUREN ELECTED PRESIDENT, “PANIC OF 1837,” FIRST TELEGRAPH SENT
SAMUEL MORSE, WAR WITH MEXICO, CALIFORNIA BECOMES FREE STATE WITH
FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT.
BY
1851-1870: UNCLE TOM’S CABIN PUBLISHED, SLAVERY AND BLACKS BANNED FROM KANSAS, DRED
SCOTT DECISION, OREGON BECOMES A STATE, LINCOLN INAUGURATED, CIVIL WAR
TIMES, LINCOLN KILLED, CIVIL WAR ENDS.
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