| Term | Definition |
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| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | one of the greatest figures of Western literature, wrote "The Sorrows of the Young Werther" , focused on the heroic genius that succeeds in spite of society, wrote "Faust" which was the first work to portray the Devil as the gentleman Mephistopheles |
| Grimm Brothers | collected and published local German fairy tales, work is example of Romantic German nationalism |
| Romantic era | about 1815 to 1848, reaction against rationalism of Enlightenment, YOUR interpretations, religious nature, UNIQUE individual |
| English Romanticism | anti Industrialization |
| William Wordworth | English poet,NATURE, co wrote "Lyrical Ballads" that icluded a manifesto for the "new poetry" and began Romantic age in poetry |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", loved water |
| Victor Hugo | wrote "Les Miserables" which criticized the French Revolution, Writes Hunchback of Notre Dame, equated freedom in literature with liberty in politics and society. Starts out Conservative, renounces ways, opposite of Wordsworth. Also Lai Miserabs-Miserable Ones, France from Napoleanic Wars to 1848. Romantic author |
| Alexander Dumas | wrote "The Three Musketeers" which criticized Louis XIV |
| Thomas Carlyle | British writer, stressed that historical events were determined by the deeds of heroes that transformed society |
| Edgar Allan Poe | writer of "Gothic literature", examples of his work are "The Raven," "Tell Tale Heart," etc |
| Mary Shelley | wrote "Frankenstein" which was a criticism of man controlling nature, "Gothic literature" |
| Lord Byron | dramaticized himself as a Romantic hero in his "Childe Harold's Pigrimage" |
| neo-Gothic architecture | the revival of medieval Gothic architecture left European countrysides adorned with pseudo-medieval castles and cities with grand neo-Gothic buildings, example is Britain's House of Parliament |
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