american romanticism is one of the most important periods in the hisory of american literature
it was a rebellion against the objectivity of rationalism.for romantics,the feelings ,intuitions and emotions were more important than reason and common sense.they emphasized individualism,placing the individual against thegroup.they affirmed the inner life of the self,and cherished strong interest in the past,the wild,the romote.the mysterious ans the strange.they stressed the element americanness in their works
it started with the publication of washington irving's the sketch bool and ended of american literature.it is also called the american renaissance
american romanticists include such literary figures as washington irving.ralph waldo emerson.henry david thoreau,william cullenbryant,henry wordsworth longfellow,nathaniel hawthorne,edgar allen poe ,herman melville,walt whitman and some others
2]]in the field of literature ,the enlightement movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works
the tendency is known as neoclssicism.the neoclaaicists held that forms of literature wer to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient greek and roman weiters such as homer and virgil and those of the contemporary french ones
they believed that the artistic ideals should be order,logic,restrained emotion and accuracy,and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity
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about british romanticism
in the mid-18th century,a new literary movement called romanticism came to europe and then to england
it was characterized by a strong protest against the bondage of neoclassicism,which emphasized reason,order and elegant wit.instead,romanticism gave primary concern to passion,emotion,and natkural beautysin the history of literature ,romanticism is generally regarded as the thought that designatesa literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience
the english romantic period is an age of poetry .major romantic poets include blake ,wordsworth,coleridge,byron,shelley and keats.romanticism prevailed in england from 1798 to 1837.
