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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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    disagree with the following statement? One should never judge a person by external appearances. Use specific reasons and details to support your answer I do agree with the fact that you should not be affected by the appearance of a person. Transcendentalism also confirms the above idea. There are three main reasons that we should not decide to do something according to his/her appearance; First‚ it may lead to a misjudgment about that person. Second is the fact of differences between appearance

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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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    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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    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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    Topic: Romanticism What are the characteristic features of poetry during the Romantic Movement?  Literary critics consider 1798‚ the year when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their "Lyrical Ballads‚" to mark the beginning of the English Romantic Movement. However‚ its actual beginnings date back to the poetry of Gray‚ Collins‚ Blake and Burns who are regaded as ’Transition Poets’ who lived and wrote at the end of the Neo-Classical Age. Critical opinion is divided as to when the Romantic Movement

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    Transcendentalism is an offshoot of the 19th century literary movement known as Romanticism. Both of these movements were defined by the various authors that expressed the movements in their works. The movements revolve around the concepts of spirituality‚ the role of natural elements in people’s lives‚ and the power of people’s unique individuality. Mary Shelley‚ the Romantic author of Frankenstein‚ and Ralph Emerson‚ the Transcendentalist author of Nature‚ express the various attitudes of Romanticism

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    ROMANTICISM Romanticism is a movement in literature and the fine arts beginning in the early 19th century. This movement stresses personal emotion‚ free play of the imagination‚ and Love of nature. To begin with‚ this movement stresses personal emotion. Personal emotion is truly how someone feels in their own way. For example‚ this movement can relate to the play “Tartuffe” in which Orgon can’t give or receive love. That’s his personal emotion towards his family and loved ones. Secondly‚ another

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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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    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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