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**1. What is the romanticism?**  Romanticism was a movement in the arts that flourished in Europe and America throughout much of the 19th century from the period of the French revolution in 1789. Romanticism was a reaction against the 17th classicism, they escaped from a world which was very rational, so nature was the ideal setting for human beings. Moreover they explored the means of penetrating into subconscious levels such as drugs, dreams,....

**2. What are the characteristics of the romanticism?**  Love of Nature: The Romantics greatly emphasized on the importance of nature, and one of the main characteristics of Romanticism in poetry is the beauty of nature found in the country life  Emotions v/s Rationality: Unlike the Neoclassical age which focused on rationality and intellect, Romanticism placed human emotions, feelings, instinct and intuition above everything else.  Artist, the Creator: As the Romantic period emphasized on emotions, the position or role of the artist or the poet also gained supremacy.  Nationalism: The Romantics borrowed **it** heavily from the folklore and the popular art.  Exoticism: Along with Nationalism, the Romantics even developed the love of the exotic.  Supernatural: Another characteristic of Romanticism is the belief in the supernatural. The Romantics were interested in the supernatural and included it in their works.

**﻿3. Why have you chosen this issue?**  I have chosen this issue because I don't know anything about romanticism and I want **to** know more things about this issue.

**4. Who are the most popular writers of this period in GB? Difference novel writers of poetry.**  Poetry: William Blake, Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Percy B. Shelley, John Keats, Matthew Arnold, John Clare.  Novel: Mary Shelley, Walter Scott, John William Polidori, Jane Austen.

**5. Choose a novel writer and explain some things about his works.** Mary Shelley was a British novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel //Frankestein: or,The Modern Prometheus// (1818).

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**6. Choose a poetry writer and explain some things about his works.** <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Lord Byron was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems //She Walks in Beauty//, //When We Two Parted//, and //So, we'll go no more a roving//, in addition to the narrative poems //Childe Harold's Pilgrimage// and //Don Juan//.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">**7. Copy a poem of a romantic writer.**

<span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">//**She walks in beauty, like the night**////**Of cloudless climes and starry skies;**////**And all that's best of dark and bright**////**Meet in her aspect and her eyes:**////**Thus mellow'd to that tender light**////**Which heaven to gaudy day denies.**////**One shade the more, one ray the less,**////**Had half impair'd the nameless grace**////**Which waves in every raven tress,**////**Or softly lightens o'er her face;**////**Where thoughts serenely sweet express**////**How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.**// <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: center;">//**And on that cheek, and o'er that brown,**////**So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,**////**The smiles that win, the tints that glow,**////**But tell of days in goodness spent,**////**A mind at peace with all below,**////**A heart whose love is innocent!**// <span style="display: block; font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif; text-align: right;"> //**Lord Byron, She Walks in Beauty**//