Romanticism vs Neoclassicism
Date Submitted: 09/09/2006 22:43:22
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 12 pages (3317 words)
Category: / Literature / European Literature
Length: 12 pages (3317 words)
Resulting in part from the libertarian and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution, the
romantic movements had in common only a revolt against the prescribed rules of classicism.
The basic aims of romanticism were various: a return to nature and to belief in the goodness
of humanity; the rediscovery of the artist as a supremely individual creator; the development
of nationalistic pride; and the exaltation of the senses and emotions over reason and intellect.
In …
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…and all the joy and sorrow associated with these conditions. Keats' brilliance in using excess to 'attract' rather than 'detract' from his ideas, gives the reader a greater appreciation of not only his work, but also John Keats, the man and the poet.
It could not be better expressed than that said by Keats himself in a letter to his brothers in December, 1817, where he stated,
'...the excellence of every art is its intensity'.
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