Description

Send us a text

EPISODE THIRTY EIGHT - HEAVEN IN A WILDFLOWER

• Learn how the Romantic Movement has nothing to do with dim lights and soft music
• Learn why if you are interested at all in Edgar Allan Poe, you should learn about the English Romantic poets
• Learn how Poe is the flip side of the English Romantics as the leading member of the DARK ROMANTIC movement.
• Learn about George’s unrequited first love in “Hollywood Love Story"

0:00 INTRODUCTION
1:36 MEANING OF ROMANTICISM
2:25 GHOST ENTERS
4:26 MEMORY AIDS
5:45 COMPARISONS INTRO
8:24 BEAUTY OF THE SUPERNATURAL   
11:37 THE INDIVIDUAL IN SOCIETY
11:58 NATURE AS THE ULTIMATE TEACHER 
14:00 TO ONE IN PARADISE
15:46 CONCEPT OF THE SUBLIME
17:39 REACTION AGAINST SET STANDARDS
18:03 IMPORTANCE OF IMAGINATION
19:47 EMPHASIS ON SADNESS
22:34 EMPHASIS ON EMOTIONS
24:30 SHOUTOUT TO NEWTOWNABBEY
25:55 “HOLLYWOOD LOVE STORY
30:40 SOURCES AND OUTRO

Sources for this episode include Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography by Arthur Hobson Quinn, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe by Dwight R. Thomas and David K. Jackson,, Edgar Allan Poe by George E. Woodberry from the American Men of Letters series, The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry by Mauree N. McLane, The Roots of Romanticism by Isaiah Berline, and The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry

Thank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.