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Undefined And Unintelligible Feelings Time Space And Variety Transcendentalists
1,178 words... cars certain vestiges of New England Puritanism, and that in their reaction against the "pale negations" of Unitarianism, they tapped into the grittier pietistic side of Calvinism in which New England culture had been steeped. The Calvinists, after all, conceived of their religion in part as man's quest to discover his place in the divine scheme and the possibility of spiritual regeneration, and though their view of humanity was pessimistic to a high degree, their pietism could give rise to ...
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Romantic Poetry Imagination And Emotion
1,043 words... r is thinking and the whole poem is a 'train of thought'. The speaker is saying that as well as being sad, he finds it strange to not be able to go back to the "days that are no more." It is the last stanza of the poem is where there is most emotion and sentimentality; a great yearning for something that will never happen again and about lost time. "Dear as remembered kisses after death, He says that the days that are now gone are as dear to him as the kisses of loved ones that are now dead....
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Consciousness Schleiermacher Absolute Dependence Religion
961 wordsFriedrich Schleiermacher, a Protestant theologian, philosopher, and educator, who wrote On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers (1799), ventured into Christian dogmatics in a non-conventional yet avant-garde manner. His new approach to critically analyzing religion signaled the beginning of the era of Protestant Liberal Theology whilst simultaneously placing his book among the classic substantive works that speaks to religion and Christian faith (Schleiermacher vii). Schleiermacher, some...
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Romantic Poets Eighteenth Century
536 wordsIn earlier days of poetry there were three types of poetry that were alike in some ways but different on views. Eighteenth century poets and Romantic poets focused mainly on nature and incorporated God some of the time. But in the works from the Puritans, their main focal point was also on nature, but it always came second to God. These different movements in poetry came about through the works of talented poets such as John Milton, Alexander Pushkin, Alexander Pope, and William Wordsworth. Seve...
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Romantic Attitude Has Affected Attitude Has Affected Speaker
348 wordsRomantics often emphasized the beauty, strangeness, and mystery of nature. Romantic writers expressed their intuition of nature that came from within. The key to this inner world was the imagination of the writer; this frequently reflected their expressions of their inner essence and their attitude towards various aspects of nature. It was these attitudes that marked each writer of the Romantic period as a unique being. These attitudes are greatly reflected in the poem "When I Heard the Learned ...
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Jacques Louis David Chamber Music
668 wordsJacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David is a French painter, one of the brightest leading representatives of Neoclassicism. Sometimes he is called as art dominator of his times, because his talent and genius influenced not only on development of painting, but also on fashion in decoration, interior design and even public political and ethical philosophy. David received his first esteem and recognition with his work The Oath of the Horatio, demonstrated at the Salon of 1784. It his early works he...
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Main Characters White Americans
943 wordsCompare and contrasts two novels by Cormac McCarthy All The pretty horses, and The Crossing. The history of land-reclamation of wild West is the part of American history, maybe not the best its part. In 20 th century the unknown land of Western part of America attracted a lot of people. People went to unknown places with aim to become rich, they dreamed to find gold. Possessed by their dream they forgot about moral There were the indigenous on the wild lands of the west. They were Indians. It wa...
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Fairy Tales Brothers Grimm
753 wordsGrimm's Fairy Tales The popular perception of brothers Grimm describes them as children's entertainers, who strived to instill young kids with the sense of conventional morality. But the truth is that amusing children was the last thing on brothers' mind, when they researched medieval German folklore and decided to use it as a base for their fairy tales. Their foremost task was to preserve German cultural heritage. The form of fairy tales was chosen because it suited the best for this purpose, a...
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John Keats View On Alienation And Ecstasy
1,510 wordsJohn Keats View On Alienation And Ecstasy The real John Keats is far more interesting than the languid aesthete of popular myth. Readers of his poetry get a very distinct feeling that Keats believes that a person spends most of his time being alienated from the society, experiencing only a few moments of ecstasy. The poets life explains much of the leading themes of his poetry (which seem to be alienation and ecstasy). Most of his best work appeared in one year. Keats was born in London as the s...
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19 Th Century Enlightened Thinkers
927 wordsThe Enlightenment and the Role of the Philosophes The Enlightenment is a name given by historians to an intellectual movement that was predominant in the Western world during the 18 th century. Strongly influenced by the rise of modern science and by the aftermath of the long religious conflict that followed the Reformation, the thinkers of the Enlightenment (called philosophes in France) were committed to secular views based on reason or human understanding only, which they hoped would provide ...
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19 Th Century Human Beings
737 wordsThroughout history, there have been many isms that had come and gone. Many things have come out of these so-called isms. Romanticism began in the closing decades of the eighteenth century. It practically dominated European cultural life in most of the first half of the nineteenth century. Poets such as Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats, and Byron were all exponents of romanticism. This was expressed in many different ways such as Writing, art and music. Victor Hugo, A. W. , Friedrich Schlegel, Schiller...
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Princess Of Wales Prince Of Wales
1,765 wordsFor the New York teenager, the European or Japanese housewife, British fashion means pop videos on MTV and splashy Di and Fergie cover stories. To the world at large, our style is that which is worn by youth as its class extremes: British fashion in international markets is Rock n Royalty. Rock &# 038; Royalty, Vogue, August 1987 Britains new ambassador for fashion had an aristocratic lineage, endless legs. At the age of 19 years old, Lady Diana Spencer possessed a shy smile and a firm grip on t...
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20 Th Century Style Of Music
576 wordsHistory of singing styles There have been distinct stages in the development of music and particularly singing over the previous hundreds of years. Looking back now we can easily see where certain things interlinked to create a new style or method of singing. From the western side of things, the first significant frame was the operatic movement. This began in the early 1600 s with the first ever Opera 1602. It was called Orpheo and was written by Monteverdi. The singing style that existed betwee...
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Billy Budd Melville
741 wordsIn the novel Billy Budd, Herman Melville challenges traditional Romantic values. Melville sets a stage on which the ideals of the Enlightenment and Romantic thinkers clash. His faith in the Romantic ideals is evident in his comparison of the trials of Billy Budd to the trials of Jesus Christ. He uses his characters, Billy Budd, Captain Vere, and Claggart to test the integrity of the Enlightenment and Romantic philosophies, by showing the consequences that come from total allegiance to either one...
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Anglo Saxon Sir Walter
1,503 wordsQuestion: Show how the voices of writers through many centuries of literature have depicted a variety of mentalities and lifestyles... Centuries could pass, and not many changes could be easily perceived by the common man, as those changes came gradually. Yet those changes can be readily discerned when looking at England as a whole, not looking at parts of history individually. The alterations of life, when looked at from a certain literary viewpoint, can be explained when one looks at the diffe...
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18 Th Century Body Politic
1,586 wordsReview: Landscape, Nature, And The Body Politic, Review: Landscape, Nature, And The Body Politic, The Politics Of Nature, Romanticism And The Materiality Of Nature And In Natures Name book reviews We revere it, we destroy it, we deconstruct it PD Smith gets to grips with the natural world in books from Kenneth Olwig, Nicholas Roe, Onno Oerlemans and Barbara T Gates Best wear a good thick skirt Landscape, Nature, and the Body Politic: From Britains Renaissance to Americas New World Kenneth Olwig ...
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Romantic Era Early Morning
688 wordsThe romantic is given the date of 1798 as its official beginning. The romantic era was known for its connection to nature in the authors writing. They always bring up emotion of some kind. They are sometimes also epic type that depict a hero and a struggle of some kind. They are usually somewhat lengthy and have a beginning, middle and an end. There has been evidence that some writers could be called romantics even before the period is said to have begun. Two writers that fit this mold are Willi...
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19 Th Century Role In The Development
1,411 wordsRomanticism was a European cultural revolt against authority, tradition, and Classical order (the Enlightenment); this movement permeated Western Civilization over a period that approximately dated from the late 18 th to the mid- 19 th century. In general, Romanticism is that attitude or state of mind that focuses on the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the creative, and the emotional. These characteristics of Romanticism most often took form in subject matters such as history, nation...
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19 Th Century 18 Th Century
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Nathaniel Hawthorne Arthur Dimmesdale
509 wordsThe book The Scarlet Letter is all about symbolism. People and objects are symbolic of events and thoughts. Throughout the course of the book, Nathaniel Hawthorne uses Hester, Pearl, and Arthur Dimmesdale to signify Puritanic and Romantic philosophies. Hester Prynne, through the eyes of the Puritans, is an extreme sinner; she has gone against the Puritan ways, committing adultery. For this irrevocably harsh sin, she must wear a symbol of shame for the rest of her life. However, the Romantic phil...
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