Definition of Romantecism
Romanticism, the name of the reactionary movement in literature and
art at the close of last century and at the beginning of this against the
cold and spiritless formalism and pseudo-classicism that then prevailed,
and was more regardful of correctness of expression than truth of feeling
and the claims of the emotional nature; has been defined as the
"reproduction in modern art and literature of the life and thought of the
Middle Ages."
- Wikipedia
Ro*man"ti*cism (?), n. [CF. It.
romanticismo, F. romantisme, romanticisme.]
A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities;
specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; --
applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive
certain medi&?;val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called
classical style.
He [Lessing] may be said to have begun the revolt from
pseudo-classicism in poetry, and to have been thus unconsciously the
founder of romanticism. Lowell.
Ro*man"ti*cism (?), n. [CF. It.
romanticismo, F. romantisme, romanticisme.]
A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities;
specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; --
applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive
certain medi&?;val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called
classical style.
He [Lessing] may be said to have begun the revolt from
pseudo-classicism in poetry, and to have been thus unconsciously the
founder of romanticism. Lowell.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- 18th Century artistic and intellectual movement which stressed emotion, freedom and individual imagination.
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