· 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”)
Caspar David Friedrich- Man and Woman Gazing at the Moon
by Ifrah Ansari
· 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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