Romantic+Art+and+Lit.

by Ifrah Ansari
 * Romantic Art and Literature **

· Reaction against the Enlightenment’s preoccupation with reason in discovering truth · Intuition, feeling, emotion, imagination · “It was my heart that counseled me to do it, and my heart cannot err.” – A German Romantic · Individual’s conflicts

Literature · Began in Germany when German poets began to emphasize emotion, sentiment, and importance of inner feelings · Love of nature · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – //Sorrows of Young Werther// · Mary Shelley – //Frankenstein// · Percy Bysshe Shelley – //Prometheus Unbound// · Lord Byron – //Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage//

Art · Artist’s reflected their inner feelings in their art · Nature · Rejected principles of Classicism · Caspar David Friedrich- //Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon// · Eugene Delacroix – //The Death of Saranapalus//

Music · Beethoven – Ninth Symphony · Hector Berlioz – founder of program music

Religion · Restoration of Catholicism and Protestantism · Fracois-Rene de Chateaubriand – //Genius of Christianity// (“Bible of Romanticism”)





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