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    Introduction to Romanticism Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as "romantic‚" although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. Rather‚ it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. Imagination The imagination was elevated to a position as the supreme faculty of the mind. This contrasted distinctly with the

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    commonly known as romanticism. Romanticism can be commonly be defined primordially as a movement that flourished in Europe and America between the time periods of 1750 and 1870. Romanticism cannot be directly pinpointed back to its origin since it created out of the earliest form of human expression and innovation‚ its beginnings‚ artistic expression and time frame inspired by nature an awareness of the past‚ a religious spirit and an artistic ideal’’ quoted by ‘’(baron’s6). Romanticism is estimated to

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    RESEARCH HUMANITIES FINAL PAPER -1789-1887 Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as "romantic‚" although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. Rather‚ it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. Romanticism‚ first defined as an aesthetic in literary criticism around 1800 The early Romantic period thus coincides with

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    Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic‚ literary‚ and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Partly a reaction to the Industrial‚ it was also a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts

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    The Transcendentalists‚ who were based in New England‚ believed that intuition and the individual conscience “transcend” experience and thus are better guides to truth than are the senses and logical reason. Influenced by Romanticism‚ the Transcendentalists respected the individual spirit and the natural world‚ believing that divinity was present everywhere‚ in nature and in each person. The Transcendentalists included Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Henry David Thoreau‚ Bronson Alcott

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    TIMELINE: ROMANTICISM 1800-1850  1749(-1832): Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born (writer).  1762: “Man was born free‚ and he is everywhere in chains.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  1770(-1840): Neo-Classicism  1770(-1850): William Wordsworth (writer) was born.  1770: Industrial Revolution had an influence on the Romantic period.  1785: Grim Brothers.  1789: French Revolution.  1800 Start of Romanticism  1802(-1885): Victor Hugo (writer) was born.  1802(-1870): Alexandre Duman

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    Eden Gately English H 10 Romanticism Poetry Due to the outbreak of rationalism from the Scientific Revolution‚ people began focusing on optimism and humanism to make the world a better place in which they called the Enlightenment. Following this‚ The Romantic Movement is said to have began in the 1770’s and is known as an international artistic and philosophical movement that focused on the thought of oneself and the world. Its span also included the American Revolution (1776) and the

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    Romanticism Romanticism. An artistic and ideological movement in literature‚ art‚ and music and a world view which arose toward the end of the 18th century in Germany‚ England‚ and France. In the beginning of the 19th century it spread to Russia‚ Poland‚ and Austria‚ and in the mid-19th century it encompassed other countries of Europe as well as North and South America. Romanticism‚ which appeared after the French Revolution in an environment of growing absolutism at the turn of the 19th century

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    In the mid-1830s‚ Ralph Waldo Emerson created a belief called Transcendentalism. He wrote the essay‚ “Self Reliance” and Henry David Thoreau‚ another Transcendentalist wrote an essay called‚ “Walden.” Both works of literature focus on the Transcendentalism belief. In “The Minister’s Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne‚ Hawthorne reveals both Transcendentalism and Anti-Transcendentalism through the attitudes of the characters. Therefore‚ “The Minister’s Black Veil” can be compared and contrasted with

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    Takeisha Bryant 19 February 2013 Hutcheson 3 AP American Lit. Transcendentalism is a very important movement that occurred not only in literature but in life as well. The transcendentalist movement was a movement that was basically the thought of everyone having an over-soul. The over-soul is the thought of a relationship between God‚ nature‚ and man. The movement had many different characteristics like individuality‚ feelings being priority over reason‚ the fact that nature was divine‚ and

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