The Romantic Movement.

... THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT IN LITERATURE The Romantic Period was a literary, musical and artistic movement in Europe and America during the late 1700s through to the middle 1800s. Romanticism was characterised by five basic tenets. It is not surprising that these were radically different from the characteristics of the Enlightenment. Just as the pendulum swings from one extreme to the other, literary movements often seem to be extreme reactions to the literary movements that precede them. Romanticism was an intentional revolt against the rational, formal, reasonable period of the Enlightenment. The Romantic Movement emphasised emotions over reason; feelings and intuition were more prevalent than intellectual ideas or thoughts. How different this is from the previous period, the Age of Reason. Emotions, even passions and sexual attractions, were addressed in literature written during the Romantic Period. Writers during the Romantic Period wrote from their imaginations rather than presenting life realistically. So, in contrast to

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