Heaven in a Wildflower

Send us Fan MailEPISODE THIRTY EIGHT - HEAVEN IN A WILDFLOWERLearn how the Romantic Movement has nothing to do with dim lights and soft musicLearn why if you are interested at all in Edgar Allan Poe, you should learn about the English Romantic poetsLearn 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 INTRODUCTION1:36 MEANING OF ROMANTICISM2:25 GHOST ENTERS4:26 MEMORY AIDS5:45 COMPARISONS INTRO8:24 BEAUTY OF THE SUPERNATURAL   11:37 THE INDIVIDUAL IN SOCIETY11:58 NATURE AS THE ULTIMATE TEACHER  14:00 TO ONE IN PARADISE15:46 CONCEPT OF THE SUBLIME17:39 REACTION AGAINST SET STANDARDS18:03 IMPORTANCE OF IMAGINATION19:47 EMPHASIS ON SADNESS22:34 EMPHASIS ON EMOTIONS24:30 SHOUTOUT TO NEWTOWNABBEY25:55 “HOLLYWOOD LOVE STORY30:40 SOURCES AND OUTROSources 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 PoetrySupport the showThank you for experiencing Celebrate Creativity.