Romantic Movement in Literature - An Introductory Note


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Romantic movement in literature began in the late 18th century in Western Europe. It is a rebellion against the enlightenment of the previous century, the emphasis was on rational and scientific thought.

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features include Romantic literature with an emphasis on passion, emotion and the natural world. Nationalism was one of the decisive factors in the Romantic movement, and as a result, many authors have turned to native mythology and folk tales as a source material. They went back to the aesthetics and tried emphasized the spirit of the Middle Ages.

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features include Romantic literature with an emphasis on passion, emotion and the natural world. Nationalism was one of the decisive factors in the Romantic movement, and as a result, many authors have turned to native mythology and folk tales as a source material. They went back to the aesthetics and tried emphasized the spirit of the Middle Ages.

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features include Romantic literature with an emphasis on passion, emotion and the natural world. Nationalism was one of the decisive factors in the Romantic movement, and as a result, many authors have turned to native mythology and folk tales as a source material. They went back to the aesthetics and tried emphasized the spirit of the Middle Ages.

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During the 19th century romanticism dominated English literature and romantic poems, and in particular has become the most important work of this period. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats are the major Romantic poets from the United Kingdom. Nature, religious fervor, emotional response to beauty, and Greek aesthetics are just some of the common themes in their work.

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Romantic novels were popular in the 19th century Britain. Romanticism is well present in the form of a Gothic novel, which takes advantage of the emotions as well as romantic love and fear. Mary Shelley Frankenstein (1818), Charlotte Bronte in the Jane Eyre (1847), and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (1847) are just some of the known examples.

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