What is Romanticism ?

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 …

…music was considerably widened, as was its harmonic vocabulary and the range and number of instruments. The most characteristic orchestral form is the symphonic poem in which the music tells a story or parallels its emotions. The most characteristic new genre is the solo song with piano accompaniment (Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf). BEST KNOWN ROMANTICISTS *William Blake *Henry Wordsworth *Samuel Coleridge *Lord Byron (George Gordan) *John Keats *Edgar Alan Poe *Walt Whitman *Ralph Waldo Emerson