19th Century British Poetry

"The Lamb"

Two readings of "The Lamb":





A musical interpretation (choir) of "The Lamb":





"The Tyger"
Two readings of the "The Tiger":





A musical interpretation (acoustic) of "The Tyger":



A short film by Guilherme Marcondes based on "The Tyger":



A short lecture on the symbolism in "The Tyger":



The Lamb & The Tyger

A combined musical interpretation of "The Lamb" and "The Tyger":

Romanticism can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and rationality that typified Classicism in general and late 18th-century Neoclassicism in particular. It was also to some extent a reaction against the Enlightenment and against 18th-century rationalism and physical materialism in general. Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental. Encyclopaedia Britannica

You should be able to describe the "Romantic Era", and give a definition of "Romanticism".

To understand the English poetry of the 19th Century, you need to understand the Romantic Era. Specifically, you need to understand how the Romantic Era protested against its predecessor, Neo-Classicism.

Look at the YouTube-video below. Take special note of the list of differences between Classicism and Romanticism.




Write a paragraph in which you define "Romanticism" in your own words.