Characteristics of Romanticism
1. Values feelings and intuition over reason
2. Values the power of the imagination and inspiration
3. Seeks the beauty of unspoiled nature
4. Values youthful innocence, idealistic
5. Values individuality
6. Values the lessons of the past
7. Finds beauty in exotic locales, the supernatural, and in the imagination values poetry as the highest expression of the imagination values myth, legend, and folk
2. Values the power of the imagination and inspiration
3. Seeks the beauty of unspoiled nature
4. Values youthful innocence, idealistic
5. Values individuality
6. Values the lessons of the past
7. Finds beauty in exotic locales, the supernatural, and in the imagination values poetry as the highest expression of the imagination values myth, legend, and folk
Romantic Literature
The Romantic Era was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak approximately between 1800 to 1860. Romanticism was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, and was also a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature, but had a major impact on historiography, education, and the natural sciences. It's effect on politics was considerably complex. In literature, Romanticism found recurrent themes in the evocation or criticism of the past, the cult of "sensibility" with its emphasis on women and children, the heroic isolation of the artist or narrator, and respect for a new, wilder, untrammeled and "pure" nature. Several romantic authors, such as Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne, based their writings on the supernatural/occult and human psychology. Romanticism tended to regard satire as something unworthy of serious attention, a prejudice still influential today.