Romanticism in Literature
Romanticism first appeared in Germany in the circle of writers and philosophers Jena School (VG Vakkenroder, Ludwig Teak, Novalis, the brothers F. and A. Schlegel). The philosophy of romanticism was systematized in the writings of F. Schlegel and F. Schelling. In the further development of German Romanticism characterized interest in fantastic and mythological explanation, which is especially manifested vividly in the works of brothers Wilhelm and Jakob Grimm, Hoffmann. Heine, since its creation in the romantic, and later had his critical review.
In England, largely due to German influence. In England it is the first of poets "Lake schools", Vordsvort and Kolridzh. They have established the theoretical basis of its direction, read during the trip to Germany with the philosophy of Schelling and the first views of German Romanticism. For English Romanticism is characterized by an interest in social problems: a modern bourgeois society, they contradict the old, doburzhuaznye relations vospevanie natural, simple, natural feeling.
The bright representative of English Romanticism is Byron, who, in the words of Pushkin, "put despondent and hopeless romanticism egoism". His works are permeated with pathos of the struggle and protest against the modern world, vospevaniem freedom and individualism.