18thCentury and Romantic

Period
BY :
ACHMAD NURFATONI
MUHAMMAD
GUSTI ARYA PUTRA
AMELIA QUR’AINI A
ENDAH SUSILOPENI
SRI EKA WULANDARI
NINA RUSDIANA
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Historical Background 18th Century

The eighteenth century was a century of Paradox. The Paradox is intensified by the way
that these two phenomena acted upon and reacted to each other. On the one hand, it was the
era of the Enlightenment, on the other hand, it was also the era of the Evangelical Revival (as it is
known in Britain) or The First Great Awakening (as it is known in America) in which untold myriads
were brought out of spiritual darkness into the true light.
Literary Feature
Emotioal and Imagiative Spontaneity
Importance of self-expression and individual feeling
Religious response to nature
Capacity for wonder
Primitive forms of art
Outcasts of society
Idea of the poet
Influentional People
Wiliiam Wordsworth (1843-1850) Jane Austen (1775-1817) Marry Shelley (1797-1851)
1. The Thorn 1. Pride and Prejudice 1. The Last Man
2. Lucy Gray 2. Sense and sensibility 2. Valperga
Historical romantic period
Romantic period is a movement, or style of art, literature and music in the
late period of 18th century. The movement said that feelings, imagination,
nature, human life, free expression, individualism and old folk traditions such
as legends and fairy tales were important. It was a reaction to the aristocratic
social and political ideas.
Literary Feature
 Experimentation with Poetic Form
 Nature
 Ruins and Relics of the Acient Past
 Rebellion
 Heroism
 Emotion
 Sense and Sensuality
 Sublime
 The French Revolution
 The Industrial Revolutin
Influentional People
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 –1834) English romantic poet and a member of the “Lakes Poets.”
Coleridge’s famous poems included The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Christabel and Kubla

R obert Burns (1759 – 1796) Scottish romantic poet who was influential in the development of
romantic poetry. He wrote in both English and Scottish and also Khan. Coleridge helped to bring to England
the concept of German idealism. (an important strand of Romanticism)

William Blake (1757 –1827) Poet, artist, and mystic. Blake wrote Songs of Innocence, Songs of
Experience, The Four Zoas, and Jerusalem. Blake is not considered a classical, romantic poet, but his new
style of poetry and mystical experience of nature had a significant influence on the growth of romanticism.
Question and Answer

1. Why the revolution industri give influence to literature on that era ?

Answer : the industrial revolution caused many books to be sold well so that writers grew and
the development of public literature grew rapidly.
2. What is Marxisme ?
Answer : Marxisme is a method of working class self-emancipation. A method of socioecomomic
analysis that views class relations and social conflict using a materialist interpretation of
historical development and takes a dialectial view of social transformation. It originates from
the works of 19th – century German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Question and Answer

3. Why religion can strengthen again at that time ?

Answer : because the Evangelical revival movement that initiated by the church of England in
18th Century. This movement occurred after a period of moral decline.