The divine arts of imagination: Imagination, the real and eternal world of which the vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. - William Blake
What is Romanticism?
Romanticism is an artistic, literary, and philosophical movement that developed during the late 18th and early 19th centuries as a reaction against neoclassicism. While neoclassicism and classicism emphasize restraint, order, harmony, and reason, Romanticism emphasizes imagination, emotion, freedom, intuition, personal experience, the beauty of nature, the primitive, the exotic, and even the grotesque. Nevertheless, many critics feel that the traditional opposition between Romanticism and classicism is all too often forced and exaggerated.
(Elements of Literature 1201)
(Elements of Literature 1201)