ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Romantic Period began roughly around 1798 and lasted until 1837. The political and economic atmosphere at the time heavily influenced this period, with many writers finding inspiration from the French Revolution. There was a lot of social change during this period.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Romantic Period (1798-1832) consists mainly of High imagination, Lyrical Ballads, The Revival of Romanticism Or, Romantic Movement, Ivanhoe, The Lake Poets, Jane Austen, Thomas Gray, Romanticism, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads important short notes etc.

Detailed explanation-3: -Lyrical Ballads, published in 1798, is often considered the beginning of the Romantic period because Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s poetry marks a distinct change in form and subject matter from neoclassical poetry.

Detailed explanation-4: -Romanticism, first defined as an aesthetic in literary criticism around 1800, gained momentum as an artistic movement in France and Britain in the early decades of the nineteenth century and flourished until mid-century.

Detailed explanation-5: -Romanticism started in Western Europe, around the middle of the 18th century. At this time, the dominant artistic and cultural movement is Neoclassicism, which finds its inspiration in the aesthetics of ancient civilizations.