ROMANTICISM

1. Romantic poetry is the poetry of Romanticism, a philosophical, literary, artistic and cultural era reacting against prevailing Enlightenment ideals of the nineteenth century providing natural, emotional, personal and artistic themes.

2. Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

3. The period typically called Romantic varies greatly between different countries and different artistic media or areas of thought. Margaret Drabble described it in literature as taking place "roughly between 1770 and 1848",and few dates much earlier than 1770 will be found. In English literature, M. H. Abrams placed it between 1789, or 1798, this latter a very typical view, and about 1830, perhaps a little later than some other critics.

4. In literature, Romanticism found recurrent themes in the evocation or criticism of the past, the cult of "sensibility" with its emphasis on women and children, the isolation of the artist or narrator, and respect for nature

5. A movement in literature and the fine arts, beginning in the early nineteenth century, that stressed personal emotion, free play of the imagination, and freedom from rules of form.

6. Artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the late 18th century and stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical art forms, and rebellion against social conventions.

7. Some characteristics of Romanticism are the following: A validation of stong emotion and imagination as authentic sources of aesthetic experience. ... There is no division between the artist and his/her art. ... A love and emphasis of nature as a place free from society's judment and restrictions.