Concetti Chiave
- The Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge emphasized simple language and incidents from common life, highlighting imagination and rustic life.
- The poet is seen as a man with heightened sensibility and knowledge of human nature, expressing powerful feelings that originate from emotions recollected in tranquility.
- Romanticism emerged in the late 18th century across Germany, England, and France, focusing on the emotional response to nature's sublimity.
- This movement has roots in the German Sturm und Drang movement, which opposed rationalism.
- In England, the first generation of Romantic poets included Wordsworth and Coleridge, while the second generation comprised poets like Byron, Shelley, and Keats, who were drawn to Italy.
The manifest of English Romanticism
In 1798 Wordsworth and Coleridge published a collection of their work anonymously entitled Lyrical Ballads, with a few Other Poems. The principal object proposed in these poems was to choose incidents and situation from common life to describe them with a simple language. The poets also want to throw over them a certain coloring of imagination. Rustic life was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil.
In this work the poet is described as a man speaking to a man.
Romanticism
Romanticism originated towards the end of the 18th century in Germany, England and France. It gave value to emotions, particularly to emotions produced when man came face to face with the sublimity of nature.
Romanticism has its roots in the Sturm und Drang movement in Germany, which rejected the kind of rationalism.
In England the first generation poets, Wordsworth and Coleridge, wrote the Romantic manifesto in the Preface to the Lyrical Ballads. Instead the poets of the second generation are Byron, Shelley and Keats, who were particurarly attracted by Italy.
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