Romanticism — English definition
A movement around 1800 that exalted feeling, imagination, nature, and the sublime over Enlightenment reason and industrial society (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Mary Shelley).
Where it is taught
- Literary Movements & Context — Close Reading & Literary Analysis, English 12: Complex Texts, Independent Inquiry & Public Voice, Grade 12
In use
Then, around the turn into the 1800s, Romanticism broke hard the other way.
Literary Movements & Context