UNIT III: Nature and Romanticism

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Term Project II                     Exhibit III Assignments Perod 1 Assignments period 2

A. Issues

• 1. Rise of the Common Man
• 2. Wild Nature vs Ideal Nature
• 3. Country Life vs City Life
• 4. Unity of Man in Nature
• 5. Nature for Meditation and Introspection
• 6. Search for the Sublime

B. Literature

• 1. Thomas Grey-Elegy in a Country Churchyard
• 2. Tintern Abey- Wordsworth for a images of ruins and overall view
• 3. Michael Wordsworth Poems
• 4. Lines Written in Early Spring-Wordsworth
• 5. World is Too Much With Us-Wordsworth
• 6. To a Skylark-Wordsworth
• 7. Ode to a Skylark- Shelly
• 8. Ode to a Nightingale- Keats

C. MusicComposer Archive

1 . Listening
a. Brahms Ein Deutsche Requiem
b. Beethoven Pastorale Symphony

2. Nature for Introspection (reflect the unspoken word)

a. Tone Painting
b. Classical form
c. Reflect mood
d. Lyrical, simple

D. Art

1. Use of color, light, compositional elements as well as thematic issues such as the rise of common man in the following artists.

a. Constable Landscape paintings

"Hay Wain"

"The Corn Field"

"Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds"

"Salisbury Cathedral from Lower Marsh Close"

"White Horse"

"Wivenhoe Park"

"Salisbury Cathedral from the River"

b. Millet's paintings of peasants

"The Gleaners (Reapers)"

" The Shepherdess"

c. Cole- "Voyage of Life: Childhood

"Voyage of Life: Old Age"

d. Corot- "Ville d'Avry"

"The Lake",

"The Boatman"

"Bridge at Nantes"

e. Turner- "Joining of the Thames and Medway"  

                 The Slave Ship

Landscape with Distant River and Bay

Fighting Termeraire

The Snowstorm

Dover Castle from the Sea

f. Gainsborough- "Harvest Wagon"

Landscape with Country Carts

Seashore with Fishermen

Mountain Landscape with Bridge

Portraits

g. Boucher- Pastorale

h. George Inness The Coming Storm

i. Georges Michel Stormy Landscape with Ruins

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