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Headings: Romanticism Literature
Romanticism Literature
Spanish Romanticism Literature

Content: Love is the most important feeling of all, and it should be lived intensely, whether good or bad. Attraction towards the nocturnal and the mysterious: Romantics loved anything that escaped reason, like miracles, visual hallucinations, and anything to do with witchcraft and world of spirits. Escape from their surroundings: Romantics reject the bourgeois world they live in, and in their works they evoke and imagine past and better days, and exotic lands. Romantics are attracted by the Middle Ages and Renaissance as times of mystery and occultism. "Costumbrismo" was one of the most important aspects of the school of Romanticism. Its main topics were the folkloric habits, especially those of the lower classes, and they used the language in its purest form. Costumbrismo was generated as a sign of melancholy and nostalgia towards past customs and ideals, and it contributed to the decadency of Romanticism and the beginning of Realism. In Spain, the main author of the Costumbrismo is Mesonero Romanos, who was more on the sidelines of Romanticism literature.