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Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe in the late 18th century, peaking between 1800 and 1850. It emphasized emotion, individualism, and glorified nature and the medieval period. Notable Romantic authors included William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron in England, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and Novalis in Germany. Romanticism promoted the individual imagination and intuition over rationalism and assigned high value to the achievements of artists and "heroic" individuals.

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Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe in the late 18th century, peaking between 1800 and 1850. It emphasized emotion, individualism, and glorified nature and the medieval period. Notable Romantic authors included William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron in England, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and Novalis in Germany. Romanticism promoted the individual imagination and intuition over rationalism and assigned high value to the achievements of artists and "heroic" individuals.

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GROUP 6 HANDOUTS – ROMANTICISM

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. Romanticism was
characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as
glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather
than the classical. It was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution,
the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment,
and the scientific rationalization of nature—all components of
modernity. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and
literature, but had a major impact on historiography, education, and
the natural sciences. It had a significant and complex effect on politics,
and while for much of the Romantic period it was associated with
liberalism and radicalism, its long-term effect on the growth of
nationalism was perhaps more significant.

The movement emphasized intense emotion as an authentic source of


aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as
apprehension, horror and terror, and awe—especially that experienced
in confronting the new aesthetic categories of the sublimity and beauty
of nature. It elevated folk art and ancient custom to something noble,
but also spontaneity as a desirable characteristic (as in the musical
impromptu). In contrast to the Rationalism and Classicism of the
Enlightenment, Romanticism revived medievalism and elements of art
and narrative perceived as authentically medieval in an attempt to
escape population growth, early urban sprawl, and industrialism.

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Although the movement was rooted in the German Sturm und Drang
movement, which preferred intuition and emotion to the rationalism of
the Enlightenment, the events and ideologies of the French Revolution
were also proximate factors. Romanticism assigned a high value to the
achievements of "heroic" individualists and artists, whose examples, it
maintained, would raise the quality of society. It also promoted the
individual imagination as a critical authority allowed of freedom from
classical notions of form in art. There was a strong recourse to historical
and natural inevitability, a Zeitgeist, in the representation of its ideas. In
the second half of the 19th century, Realism was offered as a polar
opposite to Romanticism. The decline of Romanticism during this time
was associated with multiple processes, including social and political
changes and the spread of nationalism.

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