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Romanticism
Romanticism is a movement that reflected deep interest in both nature and in thoughts and feelings of the individual. Romantic thinkers and writers turned from reason to emotion, and from society to nature. It is a movement that structured the ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. It was combined most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature. Romanticism affected not just literature but music, paintings and our perception of the world. (Honour 1-2)
Emotion was a key element of Romanticism. However, Romanticism went beyond feelings. Romantics expressed a wide range of ideas and attitudes, such as the supernatural, emotions, imagination, the exotic, heroic actions, music and much more. It valued the common people and the individual. As well as, promoted radical change and democracy. Poetry, music, and painting were the most influential arts because they were able to capture the emotion of romanticism.......

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