Study English 24

A significant period of the development of mankind in arts is Romanticism which begins in 1798, the year of the first edition of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge ends in 1832. Romanticism initiated by the English poets such as Coleridge and Wordsworth, as well as Blake, Keats, Shelley. Romanticism emphasized the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, the beautiful and rebellion against social conventions. T he main Characteristics of Romanticism are: Imagination Symbolism and Myth Love of nature Love of the common man Neo-classicism The supernatural Nationalism Heroism Strange and far-away places Imagination The imagination was elevated to a position as the supreme faculty of the mind. This contrasted distinctly with the traditional arguments for the supremacy of reason. The Romantics tended to define and to present the imagination as our ultimate "shaping" or creative powe...

 Introduction   English grammar is a description of the usages of the English language by good speakers and writers of the present day. –Whitney A description of account of the nature, build, constitution, or make of a language is called its grammar –Meiklejohn Grammar teaches the laws of language, and the right method of using it in speaking and writing. –Patterson Grammar is the science of letter; hence the science of using words correctly. –Abbott The English word grammar relates only to the laws which govern the significant forms of words, and the construction of the sentence. -Richard Grant White English grammar is the science which treats of the nature of words, their forms, and their uses and relations in the sentence. Conception of grammar Grammar is often misunderstood in the learning language. The misconception lies in the view that grammar is a collection of arbitrary rules about static structures in the language. Further questionable claim...