I've never read any literature that could be classified as Romanticism but I'm very interested in the movement, where's a good, moving place to start? I want to swoon at lush descriptions
>>7428225
The Greeks.
>>7428232
epic regurgitation man you got anything more specific and maybe an explanation of why it's romantic or led to romanticism or better yet a book from the actual period of romanticism you meme fuck
Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge if you want poetry.
If you're into prose i'd say Mary Shelley, Poe (short stories) or the bronthë sisters.
These are decent starting points I guess, if you're really inexperienced with the romantic movement you can also start with Byron.
>>7428235
Roamanticism was partly inspired by the Greeks.
>>7428283
thanks man, i'm checking out some of keats poems right now
are there any specific works that's you'd recommend for any of these writers?
>>7428291
My personal favourite by Keats is 'Ode on a Grecian Urn', I can thoroughly advise it. Same goes for Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. If you want a deeper understanding of the movement you should read the introduction to 'Lyrical Ballads', written by both Wordsworth and Coleridge.
Frankenstein is a great example of romantic prose and it really embodies a ton of features. If you consider reading it you should definitely read the story of the Villa Diodati (It's where Mary got the idea of writing it)
Les Miserables and The Count of Monte Cristo. Nothing more.
Are there even modern romatic novels? Not in the girly romantic way. Also I thought Bronte, Shelley and Poe were gothic?
>>7428225
Hesse.
bumping for more about romanticism
>>7428352
Well, Poe and Mary Shelley were transitional figures I think. The distinction isn't always clear but in my opnion these writers still have a lot of key romantic features in their writing. Brontë is definitely romantic though.
>>7428286
Meh it was inspired by Milton (literally Satan im Paradise Lost) who of course was inspired by the Greeks (and Romans). William Blake is responsible for making Paradise Lost famous and sparking Romanticism.
Read Tennyson, Byron, Shelley, etc. Might as well get into Gothic lit as well. Dracula is amazing senpai.
Frankenstein's romanticism got me out of a funk.
There's a book called Feral by George Monbiot about rewilding (letting land go wild and re-introducing species) which is half economic argument in favour of rewilding and how to do it and half him talking about nature in wales and the amazon which is wonderful prose and very immediate. Frankenstein is like stepping into history, and Feral is like stepping outside.
>>7428352
>Count of Monte Cristo
Is this romantic?
>>7428683
>Is this romantic?
I haven't read the Count, but I've read The Three Musketeers and I'd say that book definitely belongs in the romantic category.
i was pretty crushed when i heard that Dumas didnt actually write those books.
>>7428785
The fuck?
>>7428805
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Maquet
pretty much turned out to be him ghost writing for dumas.
>>7428225
Keats is king.
Some German Romanticism is fantastic. Try Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and Novalis's "Hymns to the Night". Haven't found a good translation of the latter, though. It's beautiful in the original German.
>>7428812
He outlined the plot, Dumas filled it with literary magic.
>>7428283
Coleridge is very good. It's a trite cliche at this point, but The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner embodies all the precepts of romanticism, and is itself just a very moving read.
>>7428821
a quote from the telegraph: He recounted how an episode of the Vicomte de Bragelonne which was due to be published in his paper had gone missing the day it was due to be printed. Dumas was unavailable so Maquet was contacted.
By midnight he had rewritten the episode, which was published. When, the following day, the Dumas "rewritten" text was found, "only 30 words from 500 lines were not absolutely the same".
yeah, 30 words of magic. my fuckin ass.
>>7428834
and of course a nineteenth century newspaper would never stretch the truth.
>>7428845
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7198679/Alexandre-Dumas-novels-penned-by-fourth-musketeer-ghost-writer.html read it yourself, it was for a court appeal to give Maquet credit.
Robert McFarlane's works are modern examples of romantic-inspired prose. Definitely check his stuff out.
I'd also recommend Gary Snyder, Robinson Jeffers, and David Abram.
