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KEY CONCEPTS:
Sensibility
Innocence
Imagination
Inspiration
Individuality
Idealism
Intuition
Nature
Influences
Denis Diderot future is built on reason: man is born to think for himself. His
works were banned by the government.
Man is innately good, but science is wicked and civilization is harmful and all
cultures are corrupt
Called for the end of civilization Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive
ourselves
Major Figures
They are known as the Lake poets because they originate from Lake District
They were against change, wanted a return to poetry, imagination and legend.
(Nostalgia for the past) They wanted a return to the magical and Mysterious.
The book encouraged society to prefer love rather than class, lineage, and money.
Blake and Wordsworth had a grief for children who had to work
1726 Rousseau: Wisedom of little children, spontaneity, adults are repressive (like
reason)
Revolution promised freedom for the future of humanity: Human nature seems
born again
This collection is considered as the bible of Romanticism for it contains its main
principles.
Topics were the same as earlier poetry (rural poor, beggars, deserted mothers) but
what made it different was its depth of moral and psychological complexity
Wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner in which a voyager shots an Albatross and
his ship was followed by ghosts. A warning that man should respect other creatures.
Through this poem, the search of freedom led Romantics to the Natural world
Coleridge explored the limits of human imagination which inspired him Kubla
Khan (1797) the experience of the exotic Opium
John Keats
Sought the meaning of life and claimed that it was found in Atheism.
Lord Byron
Heightened sensation
Mary Shelley
She was poet and Novelist daughter of philosopher and feminist MARY
Wollestonecraft and politician William Godwin
Wrote Frankenstein
Gothic Architecture
Conclusion
INNOCENCE AND YOUTH: YOUTH IS NOT CORRUPTED thus free from the
evils of society
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