Romanticism

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This paper examines how the integral relationship between the visual and verbal genres of the Romantic period of letters are perhaps some of its most striking aspects. It looks at how poetry and painting, in particular, seemed to be fused in a homogeneous blend of intense individualism, emphasis on naturalism, and a stress upon spontaneous human feeling, with all of its imperfections. It discusses how this integral relationship between the visual art of painting and the verbal art of poetry is not exclusive to those artists who merged these two talents in their careers such as William Blake and shows how even writers such as William Wordsworth, who strictly identified themselves as poets, for instance, are notable for the striking visual imagery of their poems, in contrast to the Classicist emphasis on verbal wit.

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"It also should be noted that, its adherents did not see 19th Romanticism's blurring of the genres of painting and writing as necessarily a break with a previous tradition. Romanticism, by its advocates, was viewed a return to a lost tradition and a better way of apprehending the Classical legacy and the Middle Ages. For instance, the Romantic stress upon individual and spontaneous responses affected the style of poetic works such as Keats, whose ?On First Looking into Chapman's Homer,? stresses the personal, spontaneous encounter of a Greek, Classical text of an individual denied the ability to translate the Greek himself. Keats becomes a personal part of this tradition, now that he can feel excitement at reading an excellent translation."

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