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Describe the salient features of the artistic movement known as Romanticism. Identify the unique features of Spanish Romanticism and show how both are reflected in the ballads of Duque de Rivas.
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DESCRIBE THE SALIENT FEATURES OF THE ARTISTIC MOVEMENT KNOWN AS ROMANTICISM. IDENTIFY THE UNIQUE FEATURES OF SPANISH ROMANTICISM AND SHOW HOW BOTH ARE REFLECTED IN THE BALLADS OF DUQUE DE RIVAS. Romanticism is, ultimately, a rather general and open term for various tendencies towards change observable in European literature, art and culture in the later 18th and early 19th centuries. Although it manifested itself everywhere in a pronounced shift in sensibility, Romanticism was not a unified movement with a clearly agreed agenda, and its emphases varied widely according to time, place and individual author. Intellectually it pulled away from the philosophical rationalism and neoclassicism of the Enlightenment, developing an alternative aesthetic of freedom from formal rules and conventions, and advocating uninhibited self-expression from the artist. It disliked the adherence to strict fundamentals for clear, elegant writing, which the neoclassical movement advocated, and instead esteemed individual inspiration more highly than educated references...
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