Even when they deal with lakes and mountains and flowers. So is Romanticism saturated with Politics?
2006-11-20 03:30:06 · 2 answers · asked by handbag_addict_2006 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
William Wordsworth was in France during some of the years of the French Revolution and found it extraordinarily inspiring but in later life grew disillusioned with it. Byron and Shelley were liberal-radical in their politics, throughout their relatively short lives. Keats came from a relatively ordinary social background, the kind the Revolutionists wished to champion, but he was probably the least political of the English romantic poets. Eventually most of the romantic poets seem to have concluded that the artistic and human imagination and the empathy it can engender can do more to transform society than political revolutions. Coleridge's Ancient Mariner gave expression to that at the end of his narrative. Paradoxically, Romanticism values the hero on the one hand and on the other praises the virtues of ordinary humanity. Shelley had his Prometheus and Wordsworth the representative types of the Lake District, including the Idiot Boy.
2006-11-20 03:59:00 · answer #1 · answered by tirumalai 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, but the idealism of Romanticism and the French Revolution is reciprocal.
2006-11-20 11:38:35 · answer #2 · answered by Stacye S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋