BBC - The Romantics - Vol 1 - Liberty

The Romantics World changing events in the late 18th century - from the French Revolution via American Independence - instigated a new movement in the art, literature and thinking of Britain: The Romantics. Introduction Peter Ackroyd, writer, historian and presenter of this three part documentary series, explains how Romantic poetry brought about a revolution in ideas in the early 19th century that changed the face of the world today. The Romantics are important because they helped to define, and indeed to create, the modern world. They helped to fashion the way in which we all now think and imagine. Blake - radical protest and the imagination William Blake was the first of the great English Romantics, principally because he was the first of the English poets to assault the principles of science and commercialism in an age when the twin imperatives of industrialization and 'system' were beginning to dominate human life. He wrote lyrics. He wrote vast verse epics. He wrote verse dramas. All of them were filled with a yearning for spiritual reality, and for a redefinition of the human imagination beyond the Newtonian precepts of order and control. He redefined the poetry of radical protest. Coleridge and Wordsworth - nature and the sublime The generation of Romantic poets who came after him, principally among them Coleridge and Wordsworth, helped to redefine the concept of nature as a healing and spiritual force. They were the first to recognize the redemptive powers of the ...

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