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Post-Romanticism

Historical And Literary Periods
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A mid-to-late 19th-century literary period following Romanticism, maintaining Romantic sensibility while engaging with industrial modernity and realism. Associated with poets like Tennyson and the Pre-Raphaelites.

Detailed Definition
The Post-Romanticism engaged with Romantic legacy while addressing Victorian modernity and change. Poets balanced Romantic sensibility and realistic observation. This period appears in poetry through persistence of Romantic imagery and sensibility, engagement with science and progress, exploration of doubt and uncertainty, melancholic reflection on change, and establishment of post-Romanticism as transitional moment in understanding modernity and literary history.
Example
Example in poetry:
A poem that retains the Romantic intensity of emotion and focus on the sublime but is tempered by a sense of modern disillusionment, skepticism, and intellectual complexity, defining Post-Romanticism; A work that uses the vastness of the universe or the indifference of nature to dwarf human feeling; A lyrical piece that expresses intense personal emotion but questions the ultimate meaning or truth of that feeling; A poem that employs a rich, musical language but in the service of expressing spiritual doubt.
Additional Notes
Post-Romanticism bridges Romantic passion and modern disillusionment. Poets retained emotional depth but acknowledged irony, fragmentation, and loss of faith.
Also Known As
Post-Romantic Period Romantic Decline
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