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Classicism and Romanticism
Title: Classicism and Romanticism
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 388 | Pages: 1.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Classicism and Romanticism
Toward the end of the eiteenth-century, Romanticism emerged as a response to Classicism. Even though this change was gradual, it transformed everything from art and philosophy to education and science. While the Classicsts thought of the world as having a rigid and stern structure, the romanticists thought of the world as a place to express their ideas and believes. The Romaniticists and Classicsts differed in their views of the relationship between an individual and society, …showed first 75 words of 388 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 388 total…existence. Their idea was that “classicism upheld tradition, often to the point of resisting change, because tradition seemed a reliable testing ground for those laws.” (text, 122) As for the Romantics, they wrote about how man has no boundaries and endless possibilities. “Who,” Emerson asked, “can set bounds to the possibilities of man?” (text, 122) Opposing classicits’ importance being put on human limitation, “the Romantics stressed the human potential for social progress and spiritual growth.” (text, 122)
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