\"Ode to the West Wind\" was written by Percy Bysshe Shelley shortly before his death in 1822. Shelley spent the majority of his life in England where he was born to an upper-class family. He attended Eton for his primary education and Oxford University until he was expelled for the publication of T...

The American Enlightenment as well as Romanticism plays an important role in Washington Irving's writings. Born in an era of rising nationalism after the American Revolution, Irving used his writings to provide a bridge between the Enlightenment and Romantic periods in America, and became know...

The age of Romanticism is characterized by the need for emotions and communication of feelings. The artwork of the period emphasizes sentimentality and passion, the use of imagination, and creativeness. There is sympathy towards the environment and towards the person being more nature-involved. Roma...

"The Age of Revolt" During each period of life on the planet earth, a new idea, religion, or belief comes about. Each period is characterized by having a major idea that is shared among all that is living at the time. Writers and poets that lived in these time periods not only believe...

In Coleridge's piece entitled "The Eolian Harp", the Eolian harp, or music, is seen as an influence on one's interpretation and affection with a situation. Coleridge's affinity with nature and the mystical relations of music and himself develop from his descriptive languag...

William Wordsworth is a well-known man for his writings that he contributed to the Romantic period. His passionate feelings of nature and strong feelings of materialism are what defines Wordsworth's poetry. In two sonnets that he wrote, "London 1802" and "Composed upon Westmi...

Percy Shelley: Hard-line Romantic The Romantic Period, which lasted about 45 years, gave birth to a new genre of literature, political thought, and it began a new era of history. Many authors contributed to the new ideals that characterize The Romantic Period. One author in particular was Percy...

Wordsworth's preoccupation in Tintern Abbey. William Wordsworth was a poet of the Romanctic period (1750 to1870) – an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the late 18th century. The characteristic attitudes of Romanticism was a deepened appreciation of the beauties of na...

The Romanticism era or movement was basically a rebellion of the typical or mainstream idea of literature. This was a very strong movement, it was accepted and practiced by approximately two thirds of the popular writting population. It began in Germany and England in the 1770s, by the 1820s it had ...

We are in full bloom, fertilizing the American soil rich with nutrients of intellect and imagination. Shouting our 19th Century American voice far and wide for all to hear. Appealing to most, offensive to others, yet engrossing the minds of future generations to come. We see an era where liter...

Romanticism made a greater difference to us than anything else since the Renaissance. It was a precursor to a whole new reference for thinking and the structuring of society. Berlin traces the evolution of romanticism with its many levels of comprehension and implications in modern thought. He leads...

Realist literature is an approach to writing that attempts to describe life without idealization or romantic subjectivity. Although realism is not limited to any one century or group of writers, it is most often associated with the literary movement in 19th-century France, specifically with the Fren...

William Blake lived from 1757-1827. He based most of his works in the style of Romanticism. Much like William Wordsworth, Blake wrote from the heart, letting natural expression take over. Many of the writers of the Romantic period felt they had entered an imaginative climate, which some of them call...

The American Romantic period of literature was simply an attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature in America over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Like the writers who embodied it, it was a time where the people of America had a deep apprec...

The black and white word of American literature has had a potent affect on the American culture. Every aspect of it from, early Puritan literature to contemporary writing has influenced several portions relating to choices America has made in history. These portions include not only politics and t...

The Scarlet Letter There were many great works of writing during the romantic period of writing. Many works that captured the readers imagination. They would give people thoughts and fantasies of things that could happen. It used many depictions of and how things were during that time period....

William Blake (1757-1827) William Blake wrote during the Romantic period which was a span between 1785 - 1830. Other great writers during this time were Mary Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and others. Some said that the Romantic period was the fairy tale way of writing through s...

Art comes in many forms. From the mind-boggling adventures of Surrealism to the beautiful landscapes of the Hudson River School, every genre of art has its own unique appeal. One of the most mystifying, emotional, and beautiful genres is Romanticism. The word \"romanticism\" comes from 18th-centur...

Romanticism began in the early 19th century and radically changed the way people perceived themselves and the state of nature around them. Unlike Classicism, which stood for order and established the foundation for architecture, literature, painting and music, Romanticism allowed people to get away ...

The period of Neoclassical art began in the 18th century and overlapped with the 18th century Age of Enlightenment. The Neoclassical art period continued into the 19th century and embraced stylistic characteristics that often resembled art from the ancient Greco-Roman society. Neoclassical art was ...

?Earlier Historical Art Period The period of Neoclassical art began in the 18th century and overlapped with the 18th century Age of Enlightenment. The Neoclassical art period continued on into the 19th century. The Neoclassical art period embraced stylistic characteristics and often resembled a...

Romantic Philosophy in The Marriage of Heaven and HellThe Romantic period produced more poets who, at one time or another, aspired to become philosophers than in any other period in English literature. The Romantic poets felt a need for a metaphysical structure that would, conceptually, make explici...

Top of the Class Looking back through the ages has been an enlightening experience. I have found that the intellectuals of the time delved for a deeper meaning in all that is life. With the advances in science, the philosophers were at once able to substantiate their claims. We can call the eighteen...

Virtue: A Timeless Characteristic From a broad perspective an agreement between multiple parties can be compromised on the definition of virtue. However, when approached on the topic of virtue from a personal perspective, the definition can be altered to suit one's own life experiences. Thi...

Classical and Romantic Operas W. A. Mozart - "Zauberflote" and C. M. von Weber - "Der Freisschuetz" W. A. Mozart - "Zauberflote" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in 1756 in Salzburg (Austria), and died in 1791 in Vienna (Austria). He was one of the first compose...