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The Romantics


Romanticism was a secular and intellectual movement in the history of ideas that originated in late 18th century Western Europe. It stressed strong emotion the individual imagination as a critical authority, which permitted freedom within or from classical notions of form in art, and overturning of previous social conventions, particularly the position of the aristocracy. There was a strong element of historical and natural inevitability in its ideas, stressing the awe of "nature" in art and language and the experience of sublimity through a connection with nature. An influence upon the Romantic movement by the ideologies and events of the French Revolution is thought to have characterized the movement. Romanticism is also noted for its elevation of the achievements of what it perceived as misunderstood heroic individuals and artists that altered society altogether. Poets in the romanticism period used their poems to express their romantic characteristics.......

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