Romanticism Tutorial

From Joyce to Twilight, individualism to literary tourism, the strains of Romantic literature have a pervasive effect even in modern culture. This weekend, students were invited to consider the origins, texts and contexts of the High Romantic period that dominated English letters for half a century and left such an outstanding legacy.

Examining the complexities and nuances of definition, students brought their own perceptions of poetry to operate upon works by Wordsworth, Blake, Coleridge and the Shelleys, tracing the currents and cross-currents of experience and Romantic aspiration. Particularly emergent in this tutorial was a sense of the relationship between self and sacrifice which might characterise creative literature.

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Megan Murray-Pepper, English Literature Tutor