Welcome!What is the Romantic Era?The Romantic Era is a period of English literary history that focuses on respect for the land, and the hatred of the arrangement that society created in the Neoclassical era of British history.
What is Romanticism?Romanticism is a system of writing popularized by writers and thinkers in the late 18th century after the end of the Neoclassical period. Romanticism emphasised inspiration, and illuminated the beauty of nature, and the distraction from nature through the world.
Some important things that Romantics choose to focus on are, people who live in and around nature, women, the innocence of children, and native people groups. The reason that Romantics choose to focus on these individual groups of people, is because they were the closest to nature, and had been the least affected by society during this time. Romanticism vs. Neoclassicism, many people look at the Romantic era and do not see the diffrence or try to understand the true influence that this era had on the art and literature of the time. Neoclassical art is a largely made up of vast interiors, large houses, elegant structures and monolithic cathedrals, all of which show mans "dominion" over nature. Romanticism takes this way of thinking and flips it on its head. Romanticism says "Man has no dominion over nature, in fact nature has dominion over man." this Ideology, this idea that we can not change the wold is the cornerstone of the Romantic movement and is very present in most all of the art and writing from this pieriod. |
Fun Fact:"Romantic" and "romantic" are not the same thing, "Romantic" refers to the Romantic Era and the ideology behind the movement further explored in this site. Although, "romantic" refers to, romance, love, hearts and cupid.
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