THE ROMANTIC ERA

Discussing the affects of Mysticicsm and Romanticism on Goethe's Faust.

An analysis of the canon changes in the Norton Anthology of British Literature through the Restoration era.

During the Romantic Period, artists and writers changed the way the world had previously thought. "The Solitary Reaper" and "Kubla Khan" are prime examples of this change.

This paper examines the influence of nature upon romantic poets such as Shelley and Wordsworth.

The occasional modern historian is quick to place blame on the Democratic Party as the sole faction that was intent on keeping the institution of slavery alive and well in Antebellum America. However, there is a bit more to the story.

Music was introduced during the Renaissance era and it reflected new cultures and political climates.

This book is about the history of science at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century.

As unconventional movie musicals have changed expectations for the genre over the past few decades, the new era of movie musicals encourages more of an anything goes for creators.

The Romantic poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe are buried in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome. How to find their gravesites.

A paper I wrote for my British Literature II class. In it, I use relationships to define the Romantic era terms "picturesque" and "sublime."

The Romantic Movement, dated from roughly 1780 to 1830, was a time when the intellectual movement throughout Europe changed from a scientific, empirical world to one full of feeling and imagination.

This article gives a brief overview of the impact of the Romantic Movement on the field of painting.

The events of the French Revolution spurred many Romantic writers to question prescribed social roles, including those of gender. The Romantic era brought perhaps the first feminist writings, creating a debate among Romantic writers on the merits of women's rights.

The adaptability of comedy is best expressed in the way that comic films have addressed the static conventions of a love story by addressing it through the prism of an ever-changing social milieu.

This essay examines the influence that 19th century photography had upon the artists of that day.

Philip Lee Williams, a Georgia author of 12 books, turns his attention to mornings on Wildcat Ridge where he has lived for the past 15 years.

Romanticism was actually a by-product of the sensibility of the Enlightenment movement.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's " The Aeolian Harp" brings to light Rene Wellek's definition of nature and imagination with ease. Its descriptive-meditative lyric form exemplifies the connection of nature to spiritually and the importance of imagination in portraying that.

Can You Play "The Holocaust"?

Examination of Romanticism as the adverse reaction to science and the enlightenment using the literature of nineteenth century European writers.

A brief overview of two of the most influential eras in the history of music.

"inspired to write" by the greatness of the French Revolution

Mozart may have died a penniless pauper at the age of 36, but his music enriched the Western artistic tradition. This 2-CD set is a wonderful sampler of music by Mozart and a few other Classical era composers.