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The romantic period

Indice Romanticismo della letteratura Italiana Manzoni Alessandro Leopardi Giacomo Romanticismo in Germania Romanticismo in Francia Romanticismo in Inghilterra Romanticismo in Russia Aleksàndr Sergéevic Pùškin La musica nel 1800 Bellini Vincenzo Paganini Niccolò Ponchielli Amilcare Rossini Gioacchino Verdi Giuseppe Il Melodramma in Italia La musica in Europa Chopin Fryderyk Schubert Franz Schumann Robert Liszt Franz Wagner Richard Guglielmo Tell Tannhauser Arte romantica Hugo Victor La pittura romantica The romantic period

Romanticism is a very important period in English history. It develops in 19^th century, but takes its roots in the second half of the 18^th century. In the 18^th century we have many important transformations in political, social and economic field, that reflect in literature. In fact we have seen the rising of Industrial Revolution with its consequences in economic and social life, because it transformed England from an agricultural to an industrial country. Consequently there was a process of urbanization, because the countrymen left their fields to go and work in factories. But their life conditions were very miserable and they lived in very poor districts called slums. These problems naturally reflected in literature because writers began to write about everyday life white a new sensibility towards poor classes, childhood and simple country life. We have in this period two types of poets: Some of them (like Wordsworth, Coleridge and Scott) disillusioned by the situations prefer refuge in the past, some others like Byron, Shelley and Keats instead reacted and proclaimed freedom and democracy. In 1798 Wordsworth and Coleridge published the " Lyrical Ballads ", that broke whit the old classical traditions: it was the born of Romantic Age and the " Lyrical Ballads " are considered the manifesto of English Romanticism. The main characteristics of Romantic movement are: 1) Return to nature; 2) Interest in the individual problem of man and childhood; 3) faith in the power of intuition, that takes the place of reason; 4) love for freedom and democracy; 5) Rebellion against classical rules; 6) love for the Far; 7) Return to the past ages. POETRY in Romantic period is more important than novel, because it can well show feelings. In fact poets analyse their heart to the contact with Nature, that must be the only source of inspirations and education, as said Rousseau. Like him the romantic poets think that man must stay to direct contact with Nature, because civilization ruins men. So they escape reality and refuse solitude in communion with Nature. PROSE Romantic novel is less important than poetry. Some writers were inspired by the Gothic novel, others by the satire. The greatest novelist was Scott with his historical novels. Then were also the novels of manners, that describe the moods of a social class with Jane Austen.

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