Title: 
Headings: Characteristics of Romanticism
Characteristics
 
of
 
Romanticism

Content: Characteristics of Romanticism
Characteristics
 
of
 
Romanticism
Romantic
Characteristic

Description
 
of
 
Characteristic

Interest
 
in
 
the
common
 
man
 
and
childhood

Romantics
 
believed
 
in
 
the
 
natural
 
goodness
 
of
humans
 
which
 
is
 
hindered
 
by
 
the
 
urban
 
life
 
of
civilization. They
 
believed
 
that
 
the
 
savage
 
is
 
noble,
childhood
 
is
 
good
 
and
 
the
 
emotions
 
inspired
 
by
both
 
beliefs
 
causes
 
the
 
heart
 
to
 
soar. Strong
 
senses,
emotions,
 
and
feelings

Romantics
 
believed
 
that
 
knowledge
 
is
 
gained
through
 
intuition
 
rather
 
than
 
deduction. This
 
is
best
 
summed
 
up
 
by
 
Wordsworth
 
who
 
stated
 
that
“all
 
good
 
poetry
 
is
 
the
 
spontaneous
 
overflow
 
of
powerful
 
feelings.” Awe
 
of
 
nature

Romantics
 
stressed
 
the
 
awe
 
of
 
nature
 
in
 
art
 
and
language
 
and
 
the
 
experience
 
of
 
sublimity
 
through
a
 
connection
 
with
 
nature. Romantics
 
rejected
 
the
rationalization
 
of
 
nature
 
by
 
the
previous
 
thinkers
of
 
the
 
Enlightenment
 
period. Celebration
 
of
 
the
individual

Romantics
 
often
 
elevated
 
the
 
achievements
 
of
 
the
misunderstood,
 
heroic
 
individual
 
outcast. Importance
 
of
imagination

Romantics
 
legitimized
 
the
 
individual
 
imagination
 
as
a
 
critical
 
authority.