1. Romanticism
A love story this ain’t

2. Romanticism
• A reaction against the universal
standards set by the Enlightenment
• Characterized by a fascination with
God, the occult, the beauty and power
of nature, cultural identity, and the
futility of perfecting mankind

3. Music - Overture and
fantasia
Beethoven and
Mendelssohn

4. Music - Nocturne and
Rhapsody, Tone poems
Chopin and Wagner

5. Poetry
• William
Wordsworth
• Wrote Tintern
Abbey and co-
wrote Lyrical
Ballads with....

6. Poetry
• Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
• Wrote The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner
• Their Lyrical Ballads
set an agenda for the
Romantic writers

7. Literature
• Wolfgang Goethe
• Representative of
Sturm und Drang
(storm and
stress)movement
• Wrote Faust and
the Sorrows of
Young Werther

8. Literature
• Sir Walter Scott
of Edinburgh
• Historical
dramas like
Ivanhoe, Rob
Roy, Lady of
the Lake and
Braveheart

9. Literature
• Victor Hugo
• Wrote Les
Miserables and
The Hunchback
of Notre Dame

10. Literature
• Aleksandr Pushkin
• Wrote Boris
Gudonov and
Eugene Onegin
• Died from wounds
sustained in a duel
with his wife’s lover

11. U.S. Literature
• Edgar Allen Poe
• Fall of the
House of Usher,
The Tell-tale
Heart, The
Raven, The
Cask of
Amontillado

12. Visual Arts
• William Blake

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14. Visual Arts
• John Constable
• Gentleness of
nature instead
of urban slums

15. Visual Arts

16. Visual Arts
• JMW Turner
• Force and
power in
nature

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21. Visual Arts
• John William Waterhouse

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23. Visual Arts
• Eugene Delacroix

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26. Visual Arts
Theodore Gericault

27. Visual Arts
Francisco Goya

31. Visual Arts
Henry Fuseli

32. Visual Arts
Caspar David Friedrich