Looking to the past for wisdom

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LOOKING TO THE PAST FOR WISDOM
Prepared: Kudaibergen Kundyz
Tleukabylova Aida
Saginova Madina

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In the British literary tradition, romanticism
refers to a historical period dominated by
Wordsworth and five other poets: William
Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron,
Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats.
The English romantics were united in rebellion
against their Enlightenment forebears. Where
the writers of the Enlightenment period, also
known as the neoclassical period, admired and
imitated classical forms, the romantics looked to
nature for inspiration. Where the neoclassic
writers prized reason, the romantics celebrated
strong emotions. Where the neoclassic s wrote
witty satires ridiculing others, the romantic
wrote serious lyric poems about their own
experiences.

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AMERICAN ROMANTIC LITERATURE
• a time of rapid expansion and growth in the
United States that fueled intuition, imagination,
and individualism in literature
• the American Romantic movement challenged the
very rational thinking of the Age of Reason during
the Revolutionary War. This period produced
fewer instructional texts and more stories, novels,
and poetry.

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FIVE CHARACTERISTICS TO
IDENTIFY AMERICAN
ROMANTIC LITERATURE.
• Imagination
• Individuality
• Nature as a source of spirituality
• Looking to the past for wisdom
• Seeing the common man as a hero

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WISDOM FROM THE PAST
• Writers used old legends to create new stories.
• Whereas the novelists and short story writers tried
to distance themselves from European tradition in
writing, the poets stuck to that tradition. They are
truly unique in their content in that they are looking
at the pure American nature and are using that for
their inspiration.
• Fireside Poets: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John
Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
and James Russel Lowell.

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• Looking to the past for wisdom: Settings that
reflect times past and plots that show how legends
fit in today.

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