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I. The Precursors of Romanticism
II. The Romantic Period
III. The Romantic Inspiration
IV. The Expressive Moods of Romanticism
Conclusion
Extracts from Literary Texts
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Reveries of the Solitary Walker
James MacPherson (1736-1796) Fragments of Ancient Poetry
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) Faust
William Blake (1757-1827) Poems The Echoing Green
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) The Bride of Messina
Germaine Necker, Baroness de Staël-Holstein, called Madame de Staël (1766-1817) Germany
Benjamin Constant (1767-1830) Adolphe
François René Chateaubriand, vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) René
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Lyrical Ballads The Thorn
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, called Novalis (1772-1801) Hymn to Night
Friedrich von Schlegel (1772-1829) Philosophy of Life
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822) The Devil’s Elixir
Joseph von Görres (1776-1848) Bayard, or the Death of the True Hero
Henri Beyle, called Stendhal (1783-1842) The Charterhouse of Parma
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) The Prayer of Nature
James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) The Last of the Mohicans
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790-1869) Poetical Meditations The Lake
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Alastor or the Spirit of Solitude
John Keats (1795-1821) Poems
Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) Intermezzo
Alfred de Vigny (1797-1863) Chatterton
Victor Hugo (1802-1885) Hernani
Aurore Dupin, Baroness Dudevant, called George Sand (1804-1876) The Devil’s Pool
Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) The Confession of a Child of the Century
Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov (1814-1841) A Hero of Our Time
Major Artists
Hubert Robert (Paris, 1733-1808)
Johann Heinrich Füssli, called Henry Fuseli (Zürich 1741 – London 1825)
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Fuendetodos, 1746 – Bordeaux, 1828)
John Robert Cozens (London, 1752-1797)
William Blake (London, 1757-1827)
Antoine Jean Gros, Baron Gros (Paris, 1771-1835)
Caspar David Friedrich (Greiswald, 1774 – Dresden, 1840)
Joseph Mallord William Turner (London, 1775-1851)
John Constable (East Bergholt, 1776 – London, 1837)
Philipp Otto Runge (Walgast, 1777 – Hamburg, 1810)
Théodore Géricault (Rouen, 1791 – Paris 1824)
Arie Scheffer, called Ary Scheffer (Dort, 1795 – Argenteuil, 1858)
Eugène Delacroix (Saint-Maurice, 1798 – Paris, 1863)
Richard Parkes Bonington (Nottingham, 1802 – London, 1828)
Théodore Chassériau (Sainte-Barbe-de-Samana, 1819 – Paris, 1856)
François Rude (Dijon, 1784 – Paris, 1855)
Pierre Jean David, called David d’Angers (Angers, 1788 – Paris, 1856)
Jean-Jacques Pradier, called James Pradier (Geneva, 1790 – Bougival, 1852)
Antoine-Louis Barye (Paris, 1796-1875)
Jean-Étienne Chaponnière (Geneva, 1801 – Mornex, 1835)
Antoine Augustin Préault, called Auguste Préault (Paris, 1809-1879)
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux (Valenciennes, 1827 – Courbevoie, 1875)
Bibliography
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