Multi-cultural Education

 

1. Artistic, literary, intellectual movement

2. Revolt against Enlightenment

3. Emotions: trepidation, horror, awe

4. Theme: sublimity of untamed Nature

5. Ideals: French Revolution, individualism, Imagination

 

1798, Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth and Coleridge.

First period:Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake

Utopian social thoughts and extreme example of sensibility.

Second Period: Byron, Shelley, Keats

Revolution, aetheism, power of poetry.

 

Reconciliation of man and Nature

Abandonment of the high language of XVIIIc

Attempt to convey poetic ideas via common vernacular

Roots in John Milton traditions

True spirit of English poetry

 

rejects established norms and conventions

is rejected by society

positions the self as the centre of existence

is the main protagonist

 

Characteristics: introspection, triumph of the individual, wanderlust, melancholy, misanthropy, alienation, isolation. Regret leads to philanthropy without tragical end.

 

"Romantic poets ushered in a new era of poetry.Their poetry was characterised by vivid and colourful language, evocative of elevating themes and ideas.”

 

"Good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” (Wordsworth)

"Art- the mediatress between nature and man.” (Coleridge)

"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s.” (Blake)