Essays on Romantic Era

From the late-eighteenth to the early-nineteenth century, known as the Romantic period, there existed a shift in some cultural and artistic elements that leaned towards a revival of the Gothic. As well as a revival of the Gothic through architectural adaptations in England, writers in...

Dorothy Wordsworth, poetess, diarist, and sister of William Wordsworth, a well-known Romantic author, was not recognized as a notable literary figure until well after her death in 1855. Despite her close connection with her brother, her strong friendship with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and her general...

In the stichic passage from William Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem The Prelude, the speaker, who represents Wordsworth himself, encounters unfamiliar aspects of the natural world. The passage is a bildungsroman in verse, a coming-of-age poem that chronicles the psychological growth of the speaker. In the passage,...

In his article On Reading Romantic Poetry, L. J. Swingle identifies the Romantic poet’s tendency to “think into the human heart” by using rustic description to explore “the naked dignity of man”. This analysis certainly holds true for William Wordsworth’s Tintern Abbey and Thomas Gray’s...

In Thomas Gray’s poem, “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes,” he shares a story about a cat named Selima while also teaching a lesson to readers. Even though the poem is amusing, it is written and...

Her beauty defied comparison. Her joy in life’s simplest pleasures endeared her to all who knew her. Her insatiable curiosity drove her to constantly explore, examine, and engage in the world around her. All these qualities make her loss seem all the more tragic. She...

Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is a melancholic poem that considers the possibility of immortality for the people buried in the churchyard the speaker visits. Although previous sections of the poem explore different ideas, such as the speaker’s remorse for those who...

The Darkness of the Philosophies The Enlightenment era made a very strong impact on art we create today. The Enlightenment era had three philosophies: neoclassical, romanticism, and realism. All three of these ended up tying together in immense ways. A revolution had begun in 1789,...

At the end of the 18th century, a movement spread throughout the world known as the Romantic Era. The works of authors, artists and musicians were influenced by emotions and imagination. The characters in the literature during that period of time depend on the large...

“America is singing a democratic song.” Transcendentalism started from the 30s of the 19th century. America had sung a new song in the form of literature. The new period approximately lasted until the end of the American Civil War. The also called the Romantic Movement...

The romantic era was a movement which consisted of artistic, literary, musical and intellectual pieces of art that lasted from 1770 till the 1850’s in most parts of Europe. This movement included pieces like “Fur Elise” by Ludwig Van Beethoven and “To Autumn” by John...

The Romantic period was about the beautiful things in life. How nature was beautiful and people should notest and take that into consideration more. To be able to appreciate nature and what it has to offer. John Keats captures that in Ode on Melancholy. How...

Although the Romantics are seen as breaking away from the classists and previous notions of idealism, Keats, however, amalgamated the very beginning ideas of the Greeks with the Romantic Philosophy. It is as if Keats united the two phenomenas- one of the past, and the...

The idea of Romanticism has changed over many years as mentioned by Jerome McGann in his work Rethinking Romanticism by stating that ‘The contrast of Romanticism that dominated 1945-80 seemed to be equally startling.’ Thus the concept of Romanticism is a prevalent idea in William...

When you think about and see nature, what do you see? Do you think about nature from a positive view, or do you see nature and think about how the environment could be better put to use? Two movements from decades ago, the Romantic and...

Writing on nineteenth-century London poetry, William Sharpe comments that ‘Regardless of shared reference to sublimity, fog, of Babylonian blindness, each poet’s London is different. Each time we read ‘London’ we have to begin again.’ For poets in the late eighteenth, and early nineteenth centuries, London...