Concetti Chiave
- Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement originating in late 18th-century Western Europe, emphasizing strong emotions and the importance of nature.
- The movement celebrated the purity of children and savages, who were seen as untainted by societal corruption.
- Romanticism valued imagination and had a keen interest in the past, particularly the Middle Ages.
- Poets were viewed as prophets, serving as a bridge between the common man and God.
- English Romanticism began with the publication of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, highlighting simple communication and nature's role as a refuge from industrial society.
Romanticism
Artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the late XVIII century in Western Europe. It stressed:
* strong emotions;
* importance of nature (Pantheistic vision = a communion with God);
* exaltation of the child and the savage who are not corrupted by society;
* exaltation of imagination;
* interest in the past, in particular Middle Age.
The poet was a sort of Prophet, a link between common man and God.
Poetry had to: communicate in a simple way and be understood by every one; stress the importance of Nature, that was a place in which man could find himself again and escape from the ugliness of the Industrial society. In England Romanticism started with the publication of the Lyrical Ballads, written by Wordsmorth and Coleridge.
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