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A 4 page paper discussing poetry of the Romantic period. The writer focuses upon the importance of nature in the poetry of this time, particularly the works of Shelley, Keats, and Blake. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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By looking at his internal nature, they found the sources of his nobility and dignity, but also certain stubborn elements of darkness and violence which seemed to form an
essential and integral part of his being. It was only one step from this discovery to the development, in Romantic literature, of the so-called Satanic hero, a man who
had great qualities of mind and heart but who was also, quite obviously, a product of that inner darkness(Bronte, 1963). II. The Romanticism The Romantic programs of Blake and Shelley
(and of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Keats as well), assumed amor mundi as an ideal and an end (producing guilt when the poet couldnt make himself feel it); the world and
the self were to be redeemed together, and this consummation was imaged as a union, a reconciliation, a marriage, an erotic joining, of self and world, subject and object, same
and other--a merging of dualities and divisions into unity (Helmling, 1990). Rene Welleks 1949 article, "The Concept of Romanticism in Literary History," played an influential role in shaping our ideas
about Romanticism. Rebutting Arthur Lovejoys argument that there is "a plurality of Romanticisms," Wellek asserts a pan-European literary movement whose aspects include a distinct poetic style, a reaction to Enlightenment
rationalism, a common symbolic and mythic language, the veneration of creative Imagination, an expressive aesthetic, and an organic theory of the links between Nature and the mind. To generalize once
more, a traditional theory of Romanticism privileges the development and use of new mythologies, focuses on the Self, and grounds literature in the Mind and specifically in philosophy, albeit informed
by emotion mitigated by contemplation, recollected in tranquillity. Against this paradigm we can pose numerous of ideas and strategies that derive from the writings of women. This aesthetics remains to
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