ANSWERS

ANSWERS ROMANTICISM IN GB (NOVEL AND POETRY)

1. What is the romanticism? Romanticism was an artistic, literary and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Europe.

2. What are the characteristics of the romanticism? Romanticism emphasized intuition, imagination, and feelings, to a point that has led to some Romantic thinkers being accused of irrationalism. In literature, Romanticism found recurrent themes in the evocation or criticism of the past, the cult of "sensibility" with its emphasis on women and children, the heroic isolation of the artist or narrator, and respect for a wilder and pure nature.

3. Why have you chosen this issue? Because I like the romantic novels, but I have discovered that they don't have any relation with the romanticism, because the novels of this period are the romances.

4. Who are the most popular artists of this period in GB? __William Blake__ (1757-1827), poet, painter and printmaker. The lake poets: __William Wordswort__h, __Samuel Taylor Coleridge__ and __Robert Southey__. The English canonical lyrics: __Lord Byron__, __Percy Bysshe Shelley__ and __John Keats__. In narrative stands __Walter Scott__, creator of the modern historical romance genre with his novels about medieval England, or Gothic novels of __Matthew Lewis__

5. Choose a novel writer and explain some things about his works. Sir Walter Scott was a writer specialized in historical novels, a genre that he created as we know it today. Some of his most famous works are //Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley// and //The Heart of Midlothian.//

6. Choose a poetry writer and explain some things about his works. Lord Byron is an English poet, influenced by Sir Walter Scott and Shakespeare, author of works like //Hours of Idleness, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers, The Corsair, Lara,A Tale, Parisina, The Dream, Darkness, etc.// His characters have an idealized character whose attributes include a great talent, a great display of passion, distaste for society and social insitutions, frustration by an impossible love, rebellion, exile, a dark past and a self-destructive behaviour.

7. Copy a poem of a romantic writer. When the voices of children are heard on the green, And laughing is heard on the hill,  My heart is at rest within my breast,  And everything else is still.

 ‘Then come home, my children, the sun is gone down,  And the dews of night arise;  Come, come leave off play, and let us away  Till the morning appears in the skies.’

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