ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Romantic Poetry, Trochaic Tetrameter, Newtons Sleep

• School: Queen's University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 200
• Professor: Leslie Ritche

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Review from tuesday- the sublime versus the beautiful. The sublime: vast and open, dark and jagged. Terror, awe and astonishment (at the experience of the day and its magnificence, experienced in isolation). Romantic poets: the romantic period was characterized by imagination, inner vision and feeling, (cid:862)fa(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:455)(cid:863), i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual ge(cid:374)ius, (cid:374)ature. As opposed and in contrast to the strict observable empiricism of the 18th century period. Poetry is most prominent and most prestigious form of individual literary expression. Political pamphlets, spectacular theatre, novels, literary criticism are other common literary forms. Helle(cid:455) a(cid:374)d keats. (cid:862)i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual ge(cid:374)ius (cid:449)riti(cid:374)g i(cid:374) isolatio(cid:374)(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)respo(cid:374)di(cid:374)g i(cid:374) (cid:374)ature. (cid:863) these (cid:449)ere the ideas of the romantic writer. They responded to the growth of the reader market, including the lower classes. There was a huge emphasis on the individual as well. Fourfold vision-blake: one would be narrow-minded in thinking solely in empirical terms.