The Pre-Romantics: Introduction
The Pre-Romantic age marked a transition from Classicism to Romanticism, with poets like Thomson, Gray, and Burns paving the way for a new era of literary expression. These writers, influenced by nature, emotions, and a departure from Neoclassical norms, explored themes such as a return to nature, sensibility, longing for a lost paradise, and fascination with the exotic and primitive. Their works reflected a shift towards a more emotional and nature-centric approach to poetry.
Download Presentation
Please find below an Image/Link to download the presentation.
The content on the website is provided AS IS for your information and personal use only. It may not be sold, licensed, or shared on other websites without obtaining consent from the author.If you encounter any issues during the download, it is possible that the publisher has removed the file from their server.
You are allowed to download the files provided on this website for personal or commercial use, subject to the condition that they are used lawfully. All files are the property of their respective owners.
The content on the website is provided AS IS for your information and personal use only. It may not be sold, licensed, or shared on other websites without obtaining consent from the author.
E N D
Presentation Transcript
The Pre-Romantics: Introduction The age of Classicism is followed by a transitional period called the Pre-Romantic age which starts from 1770-1798 about the last thirty years of the eighteenth century. Chief among those poets are : Thomson , Gray , Burns , Collins , Cowper, Crabbe who have been rightly called the Precursors of the Romantic movement .
The Pre- Romantics: Introduction The term pre- romantic defines the sensibilities, trends and ideas that developed at the end of the Neoclassical period. These developments are thought to have prepared the ground for Romanticism in its full sense. They are all departures from the orderly framework of neoclassicism and its authorized genres.
The Pre- Romantics: Introduction The pre-romantics did not constitute a school of thought. They were a group of writers who were influenced by the new feelings and trends at the turn of the century. They fight dogmas and prepared or paved the way to the coming or eve of the Romantic period. against the neoclassical
The Pre-Romantics: Introduction Those poets were more emotional and less intellectual than the Neoclassical .They used autobiographical materials and showed a genuine feeling for nature and the simple people living in its lap . A typical treatment of the theme of nature is James Thomson s The Seasons in which nature is made a main theme not that subordinate to man . But , the Pre Romantic poets treated the external charm of nature ; they did not give nature a separate life and souls as did the Romantic poets afterwards. They despised the artificial life of the city and tried instead to picture the pastoral life of the countryside; their taste was pastoral . They wrote about the poetic feelings that nature made them feel.
Themes of Pre-Romantic poetry a. a return to nature expressed through an interest in the wild , the lonely and the picturesque. b. The cult of sensibility and melancholy expressed by the love of ruins , idealization of solitude . c. cult of the primitive life ; a longing for a lost earthly paradise in which man lived in communication with nature. A typical expression of this is the idea of the noble savage . d. love of the strange , the exotic and the sublime. e. interest in the Middle ages as mysterious and barbarous.
