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The Language was also affected by the idea of simplicity and democratization: language spoken by ordinary people.
English romanticism focused on the individual .
The poet was seen as a prophet divinely inspired, similar to God in the act of creation; free from external rulex except those self-imposed.
The Romantic poet was conviced that his mission was to convey truth to mankind.
Egotism and individualism : poet spoke of himself , his joys and fears, his melancholy, his passions.
The romantic poets opposed society and its traditional values.
This spirit of revolt led in a sort of Titanism, or a exaltation of the irrational and mystic aspects of life.
Solace was found in Hellenism, or exotic and distant. ( new interest for history and Middle Ages)
Romantics revisited the past through their imagination.
IMAGINATION with fancy and fantasy , came to mean the highest gift of the poet who was able to modify the world around him.
All the poets turned to nature, and devoted themselves to recording its beauty as a counterpart to the ugliness of the industrial towns.
Romantic poetry can be also considered Nature poetry , it conveyed a new sense of communion between man and nature ( influences of Platonism, Pantheism, Idealism)
WILLIAM BLAKE
Poet , artist, engraver, visionary ( when he was a child he had often seen God and the Angel looking down him). These visions were the visualization of his thoughts . his life was uneventful.
He believed that man is essentially made up of Imagination which is eternal.
His poetry was so original and varied, that it is difficult to classify him in a literary movement. He showed the way for the return to the supremacy of spirit.
He hated rationalism and materialism, Deism and Atheism, the Christianity of his contemporary Church, the conservatism and the commercial system.
He created a philosophy of his own, that was an exaltation of the spirit of instinct and intuition. He asserted that it was possible to see the infinite beyond the material appearances.
He wrote two types of poem:
-short, in simple and popular metres, uncomplicated language. ( songs of innocence/ experience)
- long, complex, obscure work, with arcane allegory. ( prophetic works)
Exaltation of Art, social conscience ( sympathy with poor) , art is a creative vision, attack on the values of the 18th century. Freedom, he loved justice and democracy ( he opposed any institution , the rising of capitalism).
He found his models in the Bible,Milton, Divina Commedia, Chaucer , Shakespeare . Gnosticism and Hindu.
He was not orthodox, Imagination was Got to him. He believed in the Fall of Man occurred when reason revolted against God.
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