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

Content: Here, Frankenstein’s monster shows great self-awareness of his feelings and offers a vivid emotional description full of anger and sadness. I continued for the remainder of the day in my hovel in a state of utter and stupid despair. My protectors had departed and had broken the only link that held me to the world. For the first time the feelings of revenge and hatred filled my bosom, and I did not strive to control them, but allowing myself to be borne away by the stream, I bent my mind towards injury and death. When I thought of my friends, of the mild voice of De Lacey, the gentle eyes of Agatha, and the exquisite beauty of the Arabian, these thoughts vanished and a gush of tears somewhat soothed me. But again when I reflected that they had spurned and deserted me, anger returned, a rage of anger, and unable to injure anything human, I turned my fury towards inanimate objects. As night advanced I placed a variety of combustibles around the cottage, and after having destroyed every vestige of cultivation in the garden, I waited with forced impatience until the moon had sunk to commence my operations. Advertisement
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.