Romanticism, its typical hero?

[Hester]

Could anyone help me define the true "Romantic Hero". I'm not talking of the hero of romances but the hero according to the Romantic literary movement?
Thanks so much!

[Whifflingpin]

I cannot define him, but Byron's "Corsair" is an exemplar of hte type.

[Wild Apple]

Could anyone help me define the true "Romantic Hero". I'm not talking of the hero of romances but the hero according to the Romantic literary movement?
Thanks so much!

Look up Thomas Chatterton

[omegaxx]

Two prototypes would be Goethe's Faustus and Milton's Satan, I imagine.

[cuppajoe_9]

The Romantic hero, as I understand him (yes, it's usually a him), is the lonely, misunderstood, tortured outcast, usually with a terrible secret that ultimately destroys him. Marry Shelley's Frankenstein and his monster (http://www.online-literature.com/shelley_mary/frankenstein/), Coleridge's Ancient Mariner (http://www.online-literature.com/coleridge/646/), Percy Shelley's Prometheus and Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands are some good ones.

Also all things Byron.

[Aelend]

in the romantic period, i believe that the byronic hero defines what a romantic hero is. and a byronic hero is someone who has some kind of tragic flaw....

[Mugwump101]

Jay Gatsby/ James Gatz could be seen as the romantic hero in The Great Gatsby.

Also Les Miserables by Victor Hugo could be seen as a romantic book as well as his Notre Dame of Paris!