Neoclassical and Romantic movements cover the period of 1750 to
1850. Neoclassicism showed life to be more rational than it really
was. The Romantics favored an interest in nature, picturesque,
violent, sublime. Unlike Neo-classicism, which stood for the order,
reason, tradition, society, intellect and formal diction,
Romanticism allowed people to get away from the constrained
rational views of life and concentrate on an emotional and
sentimental side of humanity. In this movement the emphasis was on
emotion, passion, imagination, individual and natural diction.
Resulting in part from the liberation and egalitarian ideals of the
French Revolution, the romantic movement had in common only a
revolt against the rules of classicism