18th and 19th centuries...yet
Many critics feel the US is still ("popular" genres as a basic) in a Romantic era.
A Romantic revolution against poetic langaguage!
Literature of a common people...an equal people, and independence reigns as priority.
Rejects neoclassical formats and favors lyrical writing.
Beauty lies in choas....strangeness, wierdness perhaps. Throw out the orderliness and bring on a free-form creative flow.
(i.e. a manicured garden as opposed to wilderness, the latter is what's desired in
Romanticism.)
"Romanticism raises imagination over reason."
Now, not just romantic love stories, but strange stories that contain creative use of scenes and people and activities that may be strange, wierd, creepy...unbelievable.
Reconnect with nature...responsive reaction...engage and imagine.
Fresh language + blank verse + figures of speech + irregular + imagination + nature
Gonna take a sentimental journey...
Keats and "Negative capability" the poet should be selfless and maybe even distance themself from their work and engage those of opposite mind-sets.The poet mingles ideass to bear and sets a buffet for the reader. No judgement enlisted...just making the recipe of the poem..facilitates the words and lets it be.
Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads
to choose from common life, use real language spoken by real men,
Passions of men intermingled with nature
Not confined by civilized society and conventions of behavior...
talk to a dandylion...
Simplicity reigns
A holistic rubric
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