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    Romanticism was a literary movement that began in the late 18th century in reaction to neoclassicism. It valued emotion, individualism, nature and the supernatural. Romantic writers focused on complex characters and their inner struggles rather than universal types. The movement spread across Europe between 1750-1870 promoting imagination, emotions, intuition and passions over reason and rules.

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    Romanticism

    INTRODUCTION
    By the late 18th century in France and Germany, literary taste
    began to turn from classical and neoclassical conventions.

    The generation of revolution and wars, of stress and upheaval


    had produced doubts on the security of the age of reason.
    Doubts and pessimism now challenged the hope and optimism
    of the 18th century.

    Men felt a deepened concern for the metaphysical problems of


    existence, death, and eternity.
    It was in this setting that Romanticism was born.

    Origin
    Romanticism was a literary movement that swept through virtually
    every country of Europe, the United States, and Latin America that
    lasted from about 1750 to 1870. However, the Romantic Movement
    did not reach France until the1820's.

    Romanticism's essential spirit was one of revolt against an


    established order of things-against precise rules, laws, dogmas, and
    formulas that characterized Classicism in general and late18thcentury Neoclassicism in particular.

    It praised imagination over reason, emotions over logic, and


    intuition over science-making way for a vast body of literature of
    great sensibility and passion.

    In their choice of heroes, also, the romantic writers replaced the


    static universal types of classical 18th-century literature with
    more complex, idiosyncratic characters.
    They became preoccupied with the genius, the hero, and the
    exceptional figure in general, and a focus on his passions and
    inner struggles and there was an emphasis on the examination
    of human personality and its moods and mental potentialities.

    Visual art and literature

    The Scottish poet James Macphersoninfluenced the early


    development of Romanticism with the international success of
    his Ossian cycle of poems published in 1762, inspiring both
    Johann Wolfgang von Goetheand the youngWalter Scott.
    An earlyGermaninfluence came from Goethe, whose 1774
    novelThe Sorrows of Young Wertherhad young men throughout
    Europe emulating its protagonist, a young artist with a very
    sensitive and passionate temperament.

    Nature
    The Romantic association of nature and spirit expressed itself in one of two ways. The
    landscape was, on one hand regarded as an extension of the human personality, capable
    of sympathy with man's emotional state.

    On other hand, nature was regarded as a vehicle for spirit just as man; the breath of God
    fills both man and the earth. (Shroder, 80). Delight in unspoiled scenery and in the
    (presumably) innocent life of rural dwellers was a popular literary theme. Often combined
    with this feeling for rural life is a generalized romantic melancholy, a sense that change is
    imminent and that a way of life is being threatened.

    The Lure of the Exotic

    In the spirit of their new freedom, romantic writers in all cultures


    expanded their imaginary horizons spatially and chronologically.
    They turned back to the Middle Ages (12th century to 15th
    century) for themes and settings and had an obsessive interest in
    folk culture, national and ethnic cultural origins.
    They found delightnotions of romantic love, mystery and
    superstition, and placed an emphasis upon imagination as a
    gateway to transcendent experience and spiritual truth.

    The Decline of Romanticism

    The Decline of Romanticism


    By about the middle of the 19th century, romanticism began to
    give way to new literary movements: the Parnassians and the
    symbolist movement in poetry, and realism and naturalism.

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