The Origins of Romanticism

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"What is ‘Romanticism’? Jonathan Bate goes in search of what Isaiah Berlin described as ‘the greatest single shift in the consciousness of the West’.
A lecture by Sir Jonathan Bate CBE FBA, Gresham Professor of Rhetoric 18 September 2018
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The historian Isaiah Berlin described the Romanticism of the late 18th and early 19th centuries as ‘the greatest single shift in the consciousness of the West that has occurred’. What is the justification for this claim, what do we mean by ‘Romanticism’ and when did it begin? In the first of a series of lectures on English Romanticism, Jonathan Bate will go on a journey from the Scottish Highlands to a teenage suicide in London to the Geneva of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in search of the origins of Romanticism.
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@hevorg1381 5 жыл бұрын

Jonathan Bate is a great bloke.

@ccorreialoureiro 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful. "Romanticism is above all a movement of ideas. The idea of revolution and the idea of nacionalism. The preposterous sugestion that women, slaves and even animals might have rights. Reverence the nature, vegetarianism and enviromental conscienceness. The radical theory of anarchism and the conservative theory of the organic state. The cult of personality and the very idea of sincerity. The reinvention of poetry as the expression of the self. The belief that nothing matters more to us as human beings than our sensations, our feelings. That individualism and individuals' ideals, whatever they might be, define our freedom and our modernity (...) The modern meanings of the words imagination, creativity, genius, literature. The freedom fighter on the streets and the hiker in the mountains. (...) The alarming notion that it might be glamorous to take drugs and to commit suicide or, at the very least, to live hard and die young. The rebel and the outsider. (…) These are all ideas that emerged or grew in the Romantic Age.”

@squid-squad 4 жыл бұрын

I agree with all of what you said. Do you know "The Sorrows of Young Werther?" I don't think suicide is a good thing unless you voted for . . . , well, that's not appropriate. Camus had an interesting take on suicide to deal with life's absurdity. Romanticism is also a reaction to The Enlightenment's rationality. Hey, it's rational to control people if you can.

@Dino23968 3 жыл бұрын

So how did Romanticism view God and religion in comparison to Enlightenment?

@RavenclawFtW3295 3 жыл бұрын

Why does it seem that Romanticism has an inherent love for the natural state of being? Nature, youth, emotions, etc.

@wordscaninspire114 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome lecture. Interestingly, I would not have, out of choice, read 'The Monk', but did so due to local writers' group gothic themed event; exquisit writing, but far, far too dark for me. And shocking. Give me Jane Austen any day.

@drjaydeepchakrabarty 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent

@dianavprakash 3 жыл бұрын

Wow.... brilliant!

@iga279 3 жыл бұрын

Sturm und Drang translated as Storm and Stress sounds rather awkward here. Storm is acceptable but 'stress' is really out of place. Perhaps 'drive' or 'push' or even 'crusade' might be better choices.

@attention5638 3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Though, I do not speak German myself, I have heard 'drang' is better translated to 'urge.'

@andrewswanlund 5 жыл бұрын

Superb! Will any of the other lectures be made available? thanks

@GreshamCollege 5 жыл бұрын

Hi there! All of Jonathan Bate's lectures in this series can be found in his playlist here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qphdeKRnydW5lmg.html

@squid-squad 3 жыл бұрын

Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll (Beethoven's 5th comes to mind). What I don't understand is the diminution of Coleridge in the shadow of Wordsworth, although the beauty of the latter is beyond question (Keats is more beautiful for me).

@marcpadilla1094 4 жыл бұрын

Suffering 😊 Pain and anguish during the dismal industrial age .Money😎

@lorekallyre7205 5 жыл бұрын

Foto mmmm robin THE POETS WU WEI

@ozzy5146 5 жыл бұрын

Rousseau ignored? 25 min in and no mention. Quite ridiculous.

@plekkchand 5 жыл бұрын

Not as ridiculous as your impulsive criticism-Rousseau is credited with being key to the Romantic tradition a few minutes later.

@layj1611 4 жыл бұрын

Bro he’s talking about the english

@hkkhgffh3613 5 жыл бұрын

Rather britocentric...

@redRAID3R 5 жыл бұрын

In the first of a series of lectures on ENGLISH Romanticism

@plekkchand 5 жыл бұрын

Yes, we should have had the South African or Borromean version of British Romanticism. Quite agree. And I like using that impressive sounding suffix "-centric" too, myself. I have found that others immediately respect me for my intelligence.