What is Romanticism?
*Artistic and intellectual movement that originated in the late 18th century and stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical correctness in art forms, and rebellion against social conventions.
*The predominance of imagination over reason and formal rules (classicism) and over the sense of fact or the actual.
*The revival of medievalism in art, letters and life. (Heine)
*Liberalism in literature. (Victor Hugo)
*It is a more radical kind of expression; it seeks out the new, the curious and the adventurous.
BACKGROUND
*In literature it was America's fi…
