Definition of ROMANTICISM. Meaning of ROMANTICISM. Synonyms of ROMANTICISM

Here you will find one or more explanations in English for the word ROMANTICISM. Also in the bottom left of the page several parts of wikipedia pages related to the word ROMANTICISM and, of course, ROMANTICISM synonyms and on the right images related to the word ROMANTICISM.

Definition of ROMANTICISM

Romanticism
Romanticism Ro*man"ti*cism, n. [CF. It. romanticismo, F. romantisme, romanticisme.] A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi?val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style. He [Lessing] may be said to have begun the revolt from pseudo-classicism in poetry, and to have been thus unconsciously the founder of romanticism. --Lowell.

Meaning of ROMANTICISM from wikipedia

- Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end...
- Romanticism was a cultural movement. Romanticism may also refer to: Romanticism (journal), an academic journal established in 1995 Romanticism: A German...
- Dark Romanticism is a literary sub-genre of Romanticism, reflecting po****r fascination with the irrational, the demonic and the grotesque. Often conflated...
- Jena Romanticism (German: Jenaer Romantik; also the Jena Romantics or Early Romanticism (Frühromantik)) is the first phase of Romanticism in German literature...
- The term neo-romanticism is used to cover a variety of movements in philosophy, literature, music, painting, and architecture, as well as social movements...
- (or Romantic period). It is closely related to the broader concept of Romanticism—the intellectual, artistic, and literary movement that became prominent...
- German Romanticism (German: Deutsche Romantik) was the dominant intellectual movement of German-speaking countries in the late 18th and early 19th centuries...
- Romantic nationalism (also national romanticism, organic nationalism, identity nationalism) is the form of nationalism in which the state claims its political...
- Post-romanticism or Postromanticism refers to a range of cultural endeavors and attitudes emerging in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...
- Romanticism in Poland, a literary, artistic and intellectual period in the evolution of Polish culture, began around 1820, coinciding with the publication...