romanticism
noun/rəʊˈmæntɪsɪzəm/
/rəʊˈmæntɪsɪzəm/
[uncountable]- (also Romanticism)a style and movement in art, music and literature in the late 18th and early 19th century, in which strong feelings, imagination and a return to nature were more important than reason, order and intellectual ideas compare realismCultureRomanticism was partly influenced by the American and French revolutions, and its main themes were the importance of imagination and feeling, the love of nature, and an interest in the past. In Britain, its greatest achievements were in poetry, especially that of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, William Blake and Lord Byron. Romantic novels produced during this period include Wuthering Heights (1847) and Frankenstein (1818). In painting, Romantic artists included John Constable, J M W Turner and William Blake.Topics Artc1
- the fact of seeing people, events and situations as more exciting and interesting than they really are
- He tended to view life with a degree of romanticism.
- strong feelings of love; the fact of showing emotion, love, etc.
- the romanticism of the young Romeo and Juliet
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