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A Guide to Romanticism in Literature
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A Guide to Romanticism in Literature
16 December 2020
16 December 2020 by José Manuel Campos N
Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and its a reaction to the Enlightment. The Romantic Movement emphasised the importance of emotional sensitivity and individual subjectivity. For the Romantics, imagination, rather than reason, was the most important creative faculty
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1 Characteristics of Romanticism
2 Romanticism: Authors and their Literary Works
3 Digging Deeper
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5 More Information
Characteristics of Romanticism
These ares some of the main characteristics of romanticism
The romantics have no interest in objective rationality and that’s a big reaction to the age of the enlightment. The romantics trust their hearts over their heads. The romantics believed that knowledge is gained through intuition rather than deduction. The romantics were interested in the supernatural. The romantics see the common man as a hero. The romantics see nature as a source of spirituality. The romantic rely on imaginantion and escapism, escapism refers to the beautiful places where you mind takes you to escape from the harsh conditions.