The Romantic movement in English literature was a reaction against the Age of Enlightment, which stressed reason and logic. Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, is a statement against the destructive qualities of logic and science. The Romantics believed that human emotions were extremely important, and stressed the use and depiction of emotions in their poetry. Love is sometimes associated with the Romantics, but their works express a broad spectrum of human emotions. William Wordworth's poetry, for example, often extolls the simple joys of childhood and their affect on a person's maturation. The Romantics were also deeply fond of nature, which plays a prominent role in much Romantic poetry. Much of the best Romantic poetry has a spiritual, mystical feel to it. Romanticism as a movement had its beginnings in the late 18th century and lasted to the middle of the 19th century.
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Emily Dickinson was associated with the literary movement of Romanticism, which emphasized individualism, emotion, nature, and imagination. She is often considered a pre-modernist writer for her innovative use of language and form.
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Critics refer often to literary movements, citing different movements that have developed in literature and then been replaced by some other movement. Generally, the term is not defined, and instead it is simply assumed that everyone is talking about the same thing when the term is used.
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Neoclassicism preceded Romanticism.
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individual inspiration; emotion
the Romantic style or movement in literature and art, which is text dominated by idealism, a desire for adventure, chivalry, etc.