Romanticism
The revolt against Enlightenment reason: imagination, nature, the sublime, and the sovereign individual self.
Specifications & Metrics
- key figures
- Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Goethe, Hugo, Poe
- exemplar
- Lyrical Ballads (1798); Frankenstein (1818)
- introduced
- 1798
Core Principles & Analysis
- Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads of 1798 is its conventional opening shot.
- It prized emotion, medievalism, and wild nature against neoclassical order.
- Its afterlife runs through Symbolism into modern environmental thought.
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