History of Romanticism

1\The Romantic Movement started in England and Germany.

2\ By the middle of the 18th century the word "romantic" in English
and romantique in French were both in common use as adjectives
of praise for natural phenomena such as views and sunsets, in a
sense close to modern English usage.
3\ The Romantic period began in 1798.
4\ It started with the edition of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and
Coleridge.
5\ It ended in 1832, the year which marked the deaths of both Sir
Walter Scott and Goethe.
 Topics of Romantic Poetry:
1\Nature:
 "Nature" meant many things to the Romantics. It was often
presented as itself a work of art, constructed by imagination.

 Nature was considered a healing power.

 Nature was considered a source of subject and image.

 Nature was considered a refuge from the artificial constructs

of civilization, including artificial language.

 Romantic nature poetry is essentially a poetry of meditation.

 Bright Star
John Keats
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art-
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priest like task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors-
1-not moving.
2- magnificent appearance.
3-up in the air
4-lasting or existing forever.
5- a person living in solitude
as a religious discipline.
6-religious person.
7-the act of washing oneself.
8- look steadily.
9- a covering for the face.