THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT (1776-1837)

CAUSES

Problems causes by the Industrial Revolution: the violence of the machines towards the creative freedom and subjectivity of the people.

-Values rationalistic Enlightment

-Scientific materialism

EFFECTS

Refusal society

Revival of the Middle Ages

LITERATURE

-Poetry:absolute truth

-The symbols and image (a vital role as a means of expression)

-Relationship with Nature

-Internal analysis soul

-New role of imagination

-Lyrical Ballads

-Subjectivity

-Whole of feelings

-Childhood

Rousseau's thought (civilization leds to corruption)