Romantic Period
The Enlightment was the movement that spread and caused and influence in it's society. Romanticism, was wide spread in many different areas. Since the middle ages, had there been in artistic movement that made a big change. That changed was quickly traveled on to Germany and England and quickly spread through to the Western Hemisphere. The beginnings on the last decades in the 18th century transformed poetry, novels, drama paintings, sculptures, all forms of concert music especially opera and ballet. It was deeply connected with the politics of it's time, echoing peoples fear, hopes and aspirations. It was starting to become what is called the voice of revolution at the beginning of the 19th century and the voice establishment at the end of it. The last shift, was a result of a triumph of the class that invented and adopted a romantic movement. Many things occurred and where invented around the Romantic period. Inventions such as omnibuses that gathered several people in horse carriages and took them around town, to producing fuel gas with coal were several of the few. Unfortunate people started to get hurt a little more. Around August of 1819, workers gathered at the St. Peters field to protest their unfairness working conditio
Despite all the criticism novels little by little began to be accepted. Authors used various styles including gothic, historical and the basis of the novel reality. Several novels of the time include: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818), Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (1819) and the very well known Emma by Jane Austen (1815). Several other great poets around the time include William Blake, Robert Burns, Mary Wollstonecraft and George Gordon "Lord Bryon." Out of these poets the one that interests me the most is Lord Bryon. He uses his life and experiences as the primary sources where he drew inspiration. His life style and various affairs with many women were much scrutinized. All though Bryon lived and wrote during the Romantic Literary Period, what shows of more in his works is what's now known as the Byronic Hero and very intelligent satire. The public seemed to love his work but he didn't receive critical acclaimed or approval until very much after his death. Aside from a difficult childhood and attacks on his works by critics, Lord Bryon was also faced with a physical handicapped. Bryon never let any of these obstacles stand in his way all though the effects of these hard ships didn't show in his works. When he was only nine years old, his nurse sexually abused Bryon. This experience seems to explain some of his views about the opposite sex. After falling in love with his distant cousin, Mary Chaworth, he felt rejection and pain once again. Mary quickly grew tired of Bryon and left him. Soon after he began poetry about an ideal and unattainable love. The following year Bryon had an affair with his half sister, Augusta Leigh. In 1814 a daughter is born to them. Meanwhile Bryon also gets engaged to Anabella Milbanke. This marriage however didn't last. In the Romantic Period, the person was valued over society, imagination over logic and natural over artificial. Romantics discovered inspirations in nature, folk art, past and their passions. Most romantics viewed the explanations of cities, the prospering of industries and the
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