The Romanticism Movement: United States And Latin America

Romanticism was a movement that started in Europe and eventually lead to the United States and Latin America. It started up around 1750 and lasted until 1870, or at least went dormant for a time. Romanticism’s main goal was to combat the laws, dogmas, philosophical and scientific ideas, and everything else that the Enlightenment birthed. According the Mtholyoke.edu, the Romanticism had many core beliefs, “It praised imagination over reason, emotions over logic, and intuition over science-making way for a vast body of literature of great sensibility and passion (Schwartz).” Many people at this time probably thought it wasn’t such a bad thing, the people were taking away power from the establishment and putting it into their own hands. While