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Romanticism was a movement in art and literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
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Romanticism Romanticism was a movement in art and literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Not only was this very different to the style of its predecessors, the Augustan poets (known as Neoclassicism), but also from any previous period of literature, in many important ways. Friedrich Schlegel, a German Poet, defined this literature as "literature depicting emotional matter in an imaginative form." He was the first person known to describe literature as romantic. The six Romantics were: William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats The use of imagination and emotion are the key elements of romanticism and emphasise such characteristics as freedom; individualism; spontaneity; the beliefs that imagination is superior to logic; devotion to beauty; love and worship of nature (and pantheism- the belief that God is everywhere and in everything) and also the seasons: Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring. Romanticism also often contained superstition; mortality and...
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