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What is Romanticism ?
Title: What is Romanticism ?
Category: Literature
Details: Words: 727 | Pages: 3.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
What is Romanticism ?
What is Romanticism?
*Artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the late 18th century and stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical correctness in art forms, and rebellion against social conventions.
*The predominance of imagination over reason and formal rules (classicism) and over the sense of fact or the actual.
*The revival of medievalism in art, letters and life. (Heine)
*Liberalism in literature. (Victor Hugo)
*It is a more radical kind of expression; it seeks …showed first 75 words of 727 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 727 total…music was considerably widened, as was its harmonic vocabulary and the range and number of instruments. The most characteristic orchestral form is the symphonic poem in which the music tells a story or parallels its emotions. The most characteristic new genre is the solo song with piano accompaniment (Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf).
BEST KNOWN ROMANTICISTS
*William Blake
*Henry Wordsworth
*Samuel Coleridge
*Lord Byron (George Gordan)
*John Keats
*Edgar Alan Poe
*Walt Whitman
*Ralph Waldo Emerson
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