The Age Of Manufacturing That Preceded The Romantic Movement

Many American authors during this time period questioned the value of nature. At the time, 1800-1850 came the rise of American Romanticism where many began to have individualistic ideals. They wrote poetry and prose regarding these ideas. These Romantic writers keyed into the transcendentalist ideals to show their view about nature and its focus on both truth and pantheism. Three authors who focus on nature in their prose and poetry are William Cullen Bryant, James Russell Lowell, and John Greenleaf Whittier. In Walden, Thoreau, reveals the importance of discovering nature’s richness. In “The First Snowfall”, James Russell Lowell writes about nature to bring patience even at the darkest time. In “Nature”, Emerson expresses his view, as humans

We are not makers of history. We are made by history.(Martin Luther).Human history is as primitive as time. Sociologically human evolution commenced from living individually to the formation of ethnic and social groups. In literature this development is marked by many periods and stages .It can roughly located by following timeline , Ancient(3600 BC-1500 AD), Postclassical (500-1500) Modern and Post modern eras. Every historical era constitutes significant social, economic, religious and political changes. However, some radical changes are witnessed by the beginning of industrial revolution in Europe. The industrial era comprised the period of the Industrial Revolution and the resulting surge of capitalism during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Throughout centuries, museum practices have always been eager to reflect the ever-changing ideas in art and society. In Europe, many artistic, intellectual and literary movements have inspired museum practices, not only in terms of aesthetic values but also in evoking certain philosophies. By 19th century Europe, Romanticism began to shape many institutions outlook on art, specifically the museum’s way of engaging with new forms of themes that move beyond the artworks. The aim of this paper is to analyze the profound impact that the Romantic Movement of the late 1700s and early 1800s had on museums in Europe during the 19th century, thus accepting the era’s emphasis on museums as public, social experience that reflects the feelings and emotions towards society. The practices in museums of the 19th century have been greatly influenced by the ideals of the late 1700s and early 1800s Romantic Movement. In this case, we must begin with what Romanticism is and how the core values enthuse the practices of museums.

The start of the Romantic Age coincided with the start of the French Revolution in 1789. It ends in 1837. Just as the revolution was changing the social order, the romantic poets were taking literature in a whole new direction. The mechanical reason that pervaded the work of the previous era was replaced by strong emotions and a return to nature. Animals and respect for nature were frequently used subjects in works of his period. The first generation of poets included William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Sir Walter Scott. Their primary contribution to literature was with their lyrical ballads. They used the typical romantic themes of respect for nature and all of its creatures. Wordsworth is above all the poet

Writing about the beauty of nature and the simple life was how romantic artists rebelled against the industrial

With a prior appreciation of nature, Wordsworth took this appreciation to another level as he obtained a great interest in scenery and the countryside. Adding sensibility and imagery to his works, his reader could gain a dominant amount of culture from his writings. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau’s most famous and introductory works on the course of nature are allegedly owed to growing up on William Wordsworth's romantic approach and nature and the beauty of it all. “Nature” has said to have been the finishing product of Wordsworth’s beginning poems. Becoming more conservative as time went on, William Wordsworth only found tranquility in writing and nature as events in his life took a turn for the worse.

Awh nature! It has many colors, green, blue, red, and purple. It shines bright, but it can be dull. Nature has emotions just as humans do. Romanticism is based on nature and how it inspires a person’s creative thinking. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom and “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are two pieces of romanticism that contains the use of imagination, learn moral and spiritual lessons from nature and concern with individual freedom.

Many works of Romantics have nature embedded in them in order to embrace the wonders of Mother Nature as a result, in Nature, Emerson shows the reader that nature’s beauty is within the observer. “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God..But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with admonishing smile.” Emerson explains how people take nature’s beauty for granted by not paying close enough attention to

Many Romantic poets and artist sought solace and peace in nature; however, several recognized the power of nature and the natural world on man.

Nature has an undefinable meaning as the theme is utilised in literature, and it has been a topic of reflection within the Romanticists since the beginning of the era. Romanticism and nature and inextricably linked ideas. Poets; Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman wrote during the romantic era, and both drew heavily from aspects of nature in their work. Nature can be paralleled against several things, including humanity and the idea of life and death. The contrast between the natural world and the artificial world, and what this means for society, is also strongly eluded to in Dickinson and Whitman’s poems. Each poet uses nature as the backbone to their poetry in several instances. Dickinson’s, “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”, (Dickinson, 19) and “My Life Has Stood A Loaded Gun”, (Dickinson, 69) are strong examples of this. Whitman’s, “Song of Myself”, (Whitman, 29) and, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d”, (Whitman, 255) are also poems that show the connection between nature and romanticism. Poets, Dickinson and Whitman engage with romanticism in a creative and constructive manner through the utilisation of the natural world.

To the Romantics, the imagination was important. It was the core and foundation of everything they thought about, believed in, and even they way they perceived God itself. The leaders of the Romantic Movement were undoubtedly Samuel Taylor Coleridge and his close friend, William Wordsworth. Both were poets, and both wrote about the imagination. Wordsworth usually wrote about those close to nature, and therefore, in the minds of the Romantics, deeper into the imagination than the ordinary man. Coleridge, however, was to write about the supernatural, how nature extended past the depth of the rational mind.

Qualities of "reality," the divine, or divinities may be reflected in nature in Romanticism and we can sense God or the gods through our sensing of nature.While in Neo_classicism there is a concern for "nature"--or the way things are (and should be). This relates back to the distrust of innovation and inherent conservatism of neoclassicism. The artistic rules of old, for instance, Pope describes as having been "discovered, not devised" and are "Nature methodized"; so too, "Nature and Homer" are "the same" (Essay on Criticism 88ff., 135). This belief in "nature" implies a conviction that there is a permanent, universal way things are (and should be), which obviously entails fundamental political and ethical commitments. The focus on natural feeling over conventional rules led to an emphasis on the self over the earlier neoclassical emphasis on society. The individual becomes the source of wisdom and morality, displacing the received set of rules and norms given by society. As a result, emphasis is paced on understanding the individual's subjective state, especially as it relates to the outside world. Works ranging from Rousseau's Confessions and Reveries of a Solitary Walker to Wordsworth's Prelude, Coleridge's «conversation» poems, «Dejection», «Frost at Midnight», «Lime Tree Beauty» are examples of the romantic exploration

It is illustrative of a wider cultural dichotomy that it seems simultaneously radical and conformist to the point of truism to state that “science” has been a definably romantic endeavour, in culture and practice. The heroic and transcendent in science (namely that which is seen to contribute to improvement) has obviously been endorsed and celebrated through prose, poetry and image, but few of these celebrations directly acknowledge the values of the romantic. Likewise, the surprising interdisciplinary overlap that existed before the lath eighteenth and early nineteenth century definition and division of scientific application and research, art and academia is rarely discussed. Similarly, the embrace of the subjective, the social and the highly experimental amongst earlier, scientifically inclined romantics sits uneasily with enlightenment grounded assertions that the primary scientific focus has always been the discovery of natural “rules” and applications, through pure logic and reason.

This begs the question; how does romantic poetry attempt to show that nature is the cure to the issues that you currently face? Many of the romantic poets attempt to show that through an escape to nature, you are able to become enlightened. William Wordsworth’s “The Ruined Cottage” exhibits a woman (Margaret) who is surrounded by romantics, which is used to contrast that which are her struggles, and her lack of romanticism. This essay will look at the desire to escape the struggles that the characters are facing through a romantic escape to nature. It will display how Wordsworth’s “The Ruined Cottage” conveys a message of escapism to nature as a cure to hardship through a character that fails to escape, as well as how John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” shows a character who succeeds with

In an age dominated by logic and reason, a new movement would spring up taking the world by storm. The movement is known as Romanticism, and would replace logic with emotion and reason with the sublime. It was a response to how cold, bitter, and hollow living life based solely on logic was. Among the many artists, novelists, and poets that championed the movement, was a painter by the name of Joseph Mallord William Turner. J.M.W Turner is remembered for works such as The Fall of an Avalanche in the Grisons, Snow Storm-Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth and Tintern Abbey, whose location was the subject of a poem by William Wordsworth. Tintern Abbey is one example of how Romantics adored nature and perceived it as a divine entity.