Title: 10 Key Characteristics of Romanticism in Literature
Headings: 10 Key Characteristics of Romanticism in Literature
10 Key Characteristics of Romanticism in Literature
What Is Romanticism in Literature?
What Are the Characteristics of Romanticism in Literature?
1. Glorification of Nature
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2. Awareness and Acceptance of Emotions
3. Celebration of Artistic Creativity and Imagination
4. Emphasis on Aesthetic Beauty
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5. Themes of Solitude
6. Focus on Exoticism and History
7. Spiritual and Supernatural Elements
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8. Vivid Sensory Descriptions
9. Use of Personification
10. Focus on the Self and Autobiography
Key Poetic Forms of Romanticism
Kate Miller-Wilson

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3. Celebration of Artistic Creativity and Imagination
In contrast to the previous generations’ focus on reason, writers of the Romantic movement explored the importance of imagination and the creative impulse. Romantic poets and prose writers celebrated the power of imagination and the creative process, as well as the artistic viewpoint. They believed that artists and writers looked at the world differently, and they celebrated that vision in their work. You can see this in William Wordsworth ’s poem, “ The Prelude ." Imagination—here the Power so called
Through sad incompetence of human speech,
That awful Power rose from the mind’s abyss
Like an unfathered vapour that enwraps,
At once, some lonely traveller. I was lost; Halted without an effort to break through;