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Romanticism 792-794
More of an artistic movement than a true
ideology, romanticism glorified nature, emotion,
genius, and imagination. It proclaimed these as
antidotes to the Enlightenment and to classicism
in the arts, challenging the reliance of reason,
symmetry, and cool geometric spaces . . . Chief
among the arts of romanticism were poetry, music,
and painting, which captured the deep-seated
emotion characteristic of romantic expression.
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Characteristics of Romanticism Emotion/feelings E
scapism/idealism Power of Nature Individualism Rej
ects Industrial growth
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Explain place each primary source in historical
context
The ship driven by a storm toward the south pole.
And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
Was tyrannous and strong He struck with
his o'ertaking wings, And chased us south
along. With sloping masts and dipping
prow, As who pursued with yell and blow . .
. The land of ice, and of fearful sounds where no
living thing was to be seen. And through
the drifts the snowy clifts Did send a
dismal sheen Nor shapes of men nor beasts
we ken-- The ice was all between. The
ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was
all around It cracked and growled, and
roared and howled, Like noises in a swound !
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner (1797)
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Caspar David Friedrich, The Tree of Crows (1822)
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Eugene Delacroix, The Barque of Dante (1822)
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William Blake, The Body of Abel Found by Adam
Eve (ca. 1825)
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J. M. W. Turner, Snowstorm (1842)
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"For oh," say the children, "we are weary,    
And we cannot run or leap -- If we cared for any
meadows, it were merely     To drop down in them
and sleep. Our knees tremble sorely in the
stooping --   We fall upon our faces, trying to
go And, underneath our heavy eyelids
drooping,   The reddest flower would look as
pale as snow. For, all day, we drag our burden
tiring,     Through the coal-dark, underground
-- Or, all day, we drive the wheels of iron    
In the factories, round and round.
E. B. Browning (1806-1861), The Cry of the
Children (1844)
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Explain place each primary source in historical
context
The manufacturing system has been carried among
us to an extent unheard of in any former age or
country it has enabled us to raise a revenue
which twenty years ago we ourselves should have
thought it impossible to support, and it has
added even more to the activity of the country
than to its ostensible wealth but in a far
greater degree has it diminished its happiness
and lessened is security. Adam Smith's book is
the code. . . of this system a tedious and
hard-hearted book. . . That book considers man as
a manufacturing animal. . . it estimates his
importance, not by the sum of goodness and of
knowledge which he possesses. . . but by the gain
which can be extracted from him.
Robert Southey (1774-1843), On the State of the
Poor (1812)