Romantiscism
Who most accurately reflected the romantic sensibility of the day: the poets, the artists or the musicians? Well first off what exactly is Romanticism? Romanticism was a literary and artistic movement of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, resulting in part, from the ideals of the French Revolution and in part a revolt against classicism and the Enlightenment. It embodies none of which classicism and neoclassicism did which were precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization and rationality, and restraint. Instead, romanticism emphasized the irrational, imaginative, spontaneous and emotional. Romanticism also promoted certain attitudes such as a greater appreciation of the beauties of nature, emotion over reason, senses over intellect, heightened fascination with great hero figures, and spiritual truth. Romantics had a greater interest in folk culture, natural and ethnic cultural origins and also showed particular interests in the exotic, the remote, the mysterious, the weird, the occult, the diseased and even the satanic. Throughout the Romantic Movement, eighteenth century music, arts and literature adopted these new concepts and endured a lot of changes, refinement and some may even say perfection. Ho
Other major British Romantics were Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Thomas Carlyle, and Sir Walter Scott. Byron used Narrative poems to elevate the antisocial, melancholy hero into a romantic character. Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote ingenious lyrical poetry where he used and expressed ideas of freedom and beauty. Keats emphasized beauty and the quick course of human experience in the form of odes and other poems. Carlyle loved to use his literature to praise the heroes. Sir Walter Scott had the greatest audience and had the most profound effect of any British Romantic. He invented an immensely popular form of the novel, taught his generation and later ones how to use the past seriously in the portrayal of life, showed the great value of common people to the writer of fiction. Scott deeply influenced many other writers in England, France and Germany.
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