Romanticism

[Benny Profane]

Romanticism is a Literary Movement which has been the terror of the High School Students over time.
It's characterized by utopia, searching for unattainable events, anti-clericalism, nationalism, radicalism, republicanism, intense and poetic prose, love and passion, etc.

Key figures:

??William Blake, Lord Byron, Walter Scott, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Burns, etc;
??Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Brothers Grimm, Heinrich von Kleist, Heinrich Heine, etc;
?? Victor Hugo, François-René de Chateaubriand, Alfred de Musset, Alphonse de Lamartine, etc;
?? James Fenimore Cooper, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, etc;
?? Castro Alves, Álvares de Azevedo, José de Alencar, Martins Pena, Machado de Assis (previosly), Gonçalves de Magalhães, Fagundes Varela, etc;
?? Alexandre Herculano, Antero de Quental, Florbela Espanca, António Corrêa D'Oliveira, Almeida Garrett, Camilo Castelo Branco, etc;
?? Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, etc;
Other representatives from other countries - France Prešeren, Adam Mickiewicz, Ugo Foscolo, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, etc.

 

[Ben Jackson]

Thanks for opening the thread Benny.

More names:

?? Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, William Hazlitt, John Clare, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Bronte sisters, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Alfred Tennyson
?? Novalis, Ludwig Tieck, Holderlin, Joseph Eichendorff
Alfred Vigny, Prosper Merimee, Theophile Gautier, George Sand (France)
?? Jose Zorilla, Jose Espronceda, Mariano Jose de Larra, Rosalia Castro
?? Zygmunt Krasinski, Juliusz Slowacki
?? Yevgeny Baratynsky, Konstantin Batyushkov, Karamzin Nikolay
?? Germain De Stael, Leopardi, Manzoni, Giovanni Berchet, Lodovico di Breme
?? Hermann Melville, William Bryant, Washinton Irving, Thoreau
?? Esteban Escheveria

Romantics were fond of medieval and found inspiration in nature. Favourite English Romantic poet for me is Lord Byron, especially his short poems. Keats is another English Romantic poet I love.

Agree with you Benny on High School student hating Romantics. I once read a long poem by William Wordsworth and was very bored. Same for some poems of Goethe and long poems of Tennyson.

 

[Benny Profane]

Well, Romanticism was very important for having laid a collective national spirit (geist) in different nations abroad Central Europe (many countries upraised against huge Empires, eg Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, etc), for eliminating the Slavery in Latin American countries and North America (many Romanticists in Brazil, for example, were strongly involved with Abolitionist Movements) and for popularizing Arts in general for proletarian and poor people.

We also can cite Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Georg Hegel, Pierre Prodhoun, Max Stiner, Emma Goldman, Mikhail Bakunin, Enrico Malatesta and other Marxists and Anarchists in Social Sciences and Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, etc in Natural Sciences who had Romanticism Spirit.