Romanticism Movement
The Romanticism Movement was a period of time beginning in the late 1700s. Defined by Merriam-Webster as "a literay, artistic, and philosophical movement characterised chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions," the writers of this period were emotional, rebellious, and connected to nature.
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Romanticism followed the Enlightenment period, which was a movement with a foundation in ideas that were opposite of the emotional ideals of the Romantics. Because poets and writers were fueled by the "constraints" of the more logic oriented Enlightenment, poetry and other works were often somewhat experimental and revolutionary in the scheme of literature.
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