Romanticism

Romanticism was a reaction against the Neoclassicism that invaded the 19th century, and marked a veritable intellectual rupture. Found in the writings of Victor Hugo and Lord Byron, amongst others, its ideas are expressed in painting by Eugène Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich and William Blake. In sculpture, François Rude indicated the direction this new artistic freedom would take, endowing his work with a movement and expression never previously seen.By retracing the different stages of its evolution, this book offers a study of the different aspects of the Romantic movement. Thanks to a thorough and in-depth analysis, the reader can understand in its entirety this movement which revolutionised the era.

Romanticism was a reaction against the Neoclassicism that invaded the 19th century, and marked a veritable intellectual rupture. Found in the writings of Victor Hugo and Lord Byron, amongst others, its ideas are expressed in painting by Eugène Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich and William Blake. In sculpture, François Rude indicated the direction this new artistic freedom would take, endowing his work with a movement and expression never previously seen.By retracing the different stages of its evolution, this book offers a study of the different aspects of the Romantic movement. Thanks to a thorough and in-depth analysis, the reader can understand in its entirety this movement which revolutionised the era.

1;Contents;5
2;The Precursors of Romanticism;7
3;The Romantic Period;194;The Romantic Inspiration;37
5;The Expressive Moods of Romanticism;51
6;Conclusion;59
7;Extracts fromLiterary Texts;63
7.1;Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Reveries of the Solitary Walker;65
7.2;James MacPherson (1736-1796) Fragments of Ancient Poetry;66
7.3;Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Faust;69
7.4;William Blake (1757-1827) Poems The Echoing Green;70
7.5;Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) The Bride of Messina;73
7.6;Germaine Necker, Baroness de Staël-Holstein, called Madame de Staël (1766-1817) Germany;76
7.7;Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) Adolphe;79
7.8;François René Chateaubriand, vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) René;80
7.9;William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Lyrical Ballads;83
7.10;Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, called Novalis (1772-1801) Hymn to Night;84
7.11;Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829) Philosophy of Life;88
7.12;Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822) The Devil's Elixir;91
7.13;Joseph von Görres (1776-1848) Bayard, or the Death of the True Hero;97
7.14;Henri Beyle, called Stendhal (1783-1842) The Charterhouse of Parma;98
7.15;George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) The Prayer of Nature;101
7.16;James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) The Last of the Mohicans;107
7.17;Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) Poetical Meditations;108
7.18;Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Alastor or the Spirit of Solitude;112
7.19;John Keats (1795-1821) Poems;115
7.20;Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) Intermezzo;118
7.21;Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863) Chatterton;121
7.22;Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Hernani;122
7.23;Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, called George Sand (1804-1876) The Devil's Pool;126
7.24;Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) The Confession of a Child of the Century;132
7.25;Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814-1841) A Hero of Our Time;136
8;Extracts fromLiterary Texts;63
8.1;Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Reveries of the Solitary Walker;65
8.2;James MacPherson (1736-1796) Fragments of Ancient Poetry;66
8.3;Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Faust;69
8.4;William Blake (1757-1827) Poems The Echoing Green;70
8.5;Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) The Bride of Messina;73
8.6;Germaine Necker, Baroness de Staël-Holstein, called Madame de Staël (1766-1817) Germany;76
8.7;Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) Adolphe;79
8.8;François René Chateaubriand, vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) René;80
8.9;William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Lyrical Ballads The Thorn;83
8.10;Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, called Novalis (1772-1801) Hymn to Night;84
8.11;Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829) Philosophy of Life;88
8.12;Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822) The Devil's Elixir;91
8.13;Joseph von Görres (1776-1848) Bayard, or the Death of the True Hero;97
8.14;Henri Beyle, called Stendhal (1783-1842) The Charterhouse of Parma;98
8.15;George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) The Prayer of Nature;101
8.16;James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) The Last of the Mohicans;107
8.17;Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) Poetical Meditations;108
8.18;Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Alastor or the Spirit of Solitude;112
8.19;John Keats (1795-1821) Poems;115
8.20;Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) Intermezzo;118
8.21;Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863) Chatterton;121
8.22;Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Hernani;122
8.23;Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant,called George Sand (1804-1876) The Devil's Pool;126
8.24;Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) The Confession of a Child of the Century;132
8.25;Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814-1841) A Hero of Our Time;136
9;Major Artists;139
9.1;Hubert Robert (Paris, 1733-1808);141
9.2;Johann Heinrich Füssli, called Henry Fuseli (Zürich 1741 - London 1825);142
9.3;Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Fuendetodos, 1746 - Bordeaux, 1828);146
9.4;John Robert Cozens (London, 1752-1797);151
9.5;William Blake (London, 1757-1827);152
9.6;Antoine Jean Gros, Baron Gros (Paris, 1771-1835);