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[Anonymous No.2859932]

What are your thoughts on Romanticism?
I have limited knowledge of the period, only having read Wordsworth, Blake, Byron, Coleridge and about halfway through A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, but have decided to take a Romanticism course at Uni.
From what I have read, I really like the sublime nature of the poetry and, in Wordsworth's words the "spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling."
What do you guys think? What is your favourite Romantic poet/poem/novel?

[Anonymous No.2859933]

Mary Wollstonecraft is fucking awesome.

That is all.

[Anonymous No.2859940]

My personal pecking order:

Keats>Coleridge>Shelley (Shelley is maybe better than Coleridge but he's such a douchebag in real life)>>>>Byron>>>>Wordsworth

Assuming you're talking about English Romanticism. I like Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter, too

[Anonymous No.2859946]

>>2859940
Sorry, but Wordsworth is the best, and probably the best English language poet post-Pope. I notice you don't even mention Blake..

[Anonymous No.2859948]

>>2859940
I actually haven't read much Keats, I really should.

French Romanticism seems quite interesting but, again I have had title to no contact with it. How does it differ to English Romanticism? I suppose the themes of the Revolution has a lot to do with it, but are there any other significant ideas which separate French and English Romanticism?

[Anonymous No.2859954]

You should give Goethe's The Sufferings of Young Werther. In my opinion, Werther's character sort of lampoons the romantic spirit. Even though later Goethe apparently regretted and disowned the work, it inspired much of the subsequent romantic literary movement-- although on first viewing, I read it as a critique of it. Of course, I know nothing.

[Anonymous No.2859961]

>>2859946

I consider Blake more of a pre-romantic.The English romantic movement really started with Lyrical Ballads

Which was mostly Wordsworth. But in terms of poetic skill and output he was never as good as Coleridge or Shelley, for example

[Evan's Mom !Z8NLUvW1.g No.2859966]

>>2859948

yeah the French romantics were basically 30 years behind the English and German romantics.

[Anonymous No.2859973]

>>2859954
Thanks, I'll check it out.

[Anonymous No.2860461]

Romanticism on the visual arts is so underrated

We need a new Romanticism

[Anonymous No.2860504]

romantics were the fucking hipsters of their times. lived high off the advantages that civilisation brought, and at the same time longed for the primitive life-style, because living in the cities sucked. it was that lying sack of shit Rosseau who claimed the Savage was Noble, without ever having lived with one.

[Anonymous No.2860507]

>>2860461
we've GOT a new Romanticism. it's called Ableism.

TRIGGER WARNING: POKEMON

[Anonymous No.2860552]

>>2859966
nope

French romanticism has more to do with the german one. English romanticism's influence during that era was limited due to Napoleon's war blockade.
All three movements had different trajectories, French romanticism is very interesting because it gave birth to symbolism and most importantly Charles Baudelaire.

[Anonymous No.2860569]

>>2860507