romanticism

An anthology of Romantic poetry that features the work of a wide range of Romantic authors, including Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, William Blake, Thomas Moore, and Lord Byron.

During a fifty-year period, an artistic movement developed in America that was based on Romanticism and inspired by the wild areas in the vicinity of New York?s Hudson River. The first native American school of landscape painting included artists Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand, and Thomas Doughty as well as Frederic Church, Thomas Moran, and Albert Bierstadt. While most of these artists did not think of themselves as belonging to a movement, they did share a sense of wonder at the grandeur of the New World?s remarkable scenic wilderness.

Introduces some of the major artists, writers, and composers that flourished in Europe and the United States during the Romantic era in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Profiles seventeen Romantic poets, including William Blake, Lord Byron, and John Keats, and provides a brief biography of each poet and a list of their works and achievements.

Evaluates the lesser-known Romantic revolution as a fundamental and far-reaching period while revealing the range of modern cultural axioms it inspired, from views about genius and sexuality to theories about dreams and the subconscious.

The first part of the book is on Realism, with essays on Balzac, Dickens, and Gogol. The second part of the book shows how Dostoevsky this tradition and made it his own.