Term Papers on Romanticism

Term Paper Title	Romanticism
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Romanticism

     The word ‘Romanticism’ has many meanings to it.  Most commonly, it refers to a major period of movement in literature and poetry.  According to the Norton Anthology of English Literature, this period lasted from “1785 to 1830” (1).  This new type of writing, Romanticism, became known in many European countries, as well as, the United States.  Most scholars would associate Romanticism with British literature more than any other.  Some of the major British writers of the Romanticism period are William Blake, Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sir Walter Scott, and William Wordsworth.

      According to the America Online Knowledge Database, some characteristics of the Romanticism movement are:

1)  “An interest in nature and in the simple, uncivilized way of life.  The natural way of life.

      Eventually this would lead to the cult of the noble savage.

2)   An interest in scenery, especially that which was wild and untamed.

3)   An interest in the natural order of things, natural religion.

4)   Human moods associated with nature.  Nature that is interpreted in a subjective way.

5)   A belief in the importance of spontaneity in thought and action.  The child in the man.

6)   A strong belief in the power of the imagination.

7)      The importance of the individual over the group.  Scorning of convention and an emphasis

      on personal expression.”

     Of all of the British poems we have studied so far this semester, the Romantic poet that I came to like the most is William Blake.  William Blake is most famous for writing a book of poems called “Songs of Innocence and of Experience in 1794” (36).  Blake is one of the poets, whom I think, used all of these characteristics of Romanticism in his poems.

     In his Introduction to the Songs of Innocence, Blake makes use of many of the characteristics of a Romantic writer.  The poem, from page 43 of the Norton Anthology of English Literature, goes as follows:

Piping down the valleys wild

Piping songs of pleasant glee

On a cloud I saw a child,

And he laughing said to me,

“Pipe a song about a Lamb”;

So I piped with merry chear;

“Piper pipe that song again” –

So I piped, he wept to hear.

“Drop thy pipe thy happy pie

Sing thy songs of happy chear”;

So I sung the same again

While he wept with joy to hear.

“Piper sit thee down and write

In a book that all may read” –

So he vanish’d from my sight.

And I pluck’d a hollow reed,

And I made a rural pen,

And I stain’d the water clear,

And I wrote my happy songs

Every child may joy to hear.

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