Romanticism
Romanticism, or the Romantic movement, was a style of art, literature and music in the late 18th and the early 19th century in Europe.
The movement believed in the importance of feelings, imagination, nature, human life, freedom of expression, individualism, and old folk traditions (like legends and fairy tales).[1]
The movement showed most strongly in arts like music and literature. However, it also had an important influence on historiography,[2] education,[3] and natural history.[4]
Background
The Romantic movement was a reaction to the aristocratic social and political ideas of the Age of Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.[1][5] It was also a reaction against turning nature into mere science.[5]
Examples
United Kingdom
British Romanticism was notable because the United Kingdom was an early adopter of industrialization and science. Well-known British Romanticists include:
- William Wordsworth
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Lord Byron
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- William Blake
- Robert Burns
- Walter Scott
- J. M. W. Turner
Germany
During the same period as in Britain, a notable Romantic movement occurred in Germany. Travel, nature, and Germanic myths were important motifs.
Famous German Romanticists include:
- Ludwig von Beethoven
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as a younger man
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Friedrich Schiller
- Brothers Grimm
Related pages
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Romanticism -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia". britannica.com. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
- ↑ David Levin, History as Romantic Art: Bancroft, Prescott, and Parkman (1967)
- ↑ Gerald Lee Gutek, A history of the Western educational experience (1987) ch. 12 on Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
- ↑ Ashton Nichols, "Roaring Alligators and Burning Tygers: Poetry and Science from William Bartram to Charles Darwin," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 2005 149(3): 304-315
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Casey, Christopher (2008). "Grecian grandeurs and the rude wasting of old time: Britain, the Elgin Marbles, and post-revolutionary Hellenism". Foundations. Volume III, Number 1. Archived from the original on 2009-05-13. Retrieved 2009-06-25.
Other websites
- The Romantic Poets
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas Archived 2009-09-14 at the Wayback Machine, Romanticism
- Romantic Circles Electronic editions, histories, and scholarly articles related to the Romantic era
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas Archived 2008-10-01 at the Wayback Machine, Romanticism in Political Thought
- Romanticism in the "History of Art" Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Romanticism in the Art History Archive