Title: What is romanticism? - Quora
Headings: What is romanticism?
What is romanticism?
Content: The primacy of the individual, especially against trails of nature and society. Often, the romantic
Continue Reading
Romance is—though no longer thought of in this definition modernly, but was inherently the case in the early usages of the word—a tale, usually of some chivalric endeavor, written in the Romance languages. Romance languages themselves are descendent from Latin, and, yup you guessed it, decedent from a latin word romant which means “in the Roman manner.” So then what is the meaning of Romanticism? This question is large enough for many volumes of study, but we can go over some large broad strokes: The primacy of the individual, especially against trails of nature and society. Often, the romantic movement places importance on the individual, which also harkens back to romantic pieces (think Yvaine the Knight of the Lion, Gwain and the Green Knight, The Greek Alexander Romance, Jason and the argonauts, etc. etc. ). These stories do not share the narrative space as well as others, and tend to be about the prowess of, or failure and success of, the characters for which they are named. The romantics of the English tradition in particular drew inspiration from the devil in John Milton’s Paradise Lost, perhaps particularly because the devil is an anti-hero who tries to find reason within the world he has been forced to inhabit by both choice and punishment.