The term of romanticism was first an English one that was in use in literature in the 1840's. By the time of its "creation" the writing movement it described had already been in existence for fifty years. The term itself can said to be a practice or a theory of literature and of the arts. Its first such writers are often said to be based on the works Wordsworth, Shelley, and Byron in England. Victor Hugo in France is said to be of the school of "romanticism". It became prominent also in Germany and slowly to the New World.The movement raised within itself the challenge to find "truth" in the human condition. These writers focused attention on human qualities such love, hurt and pain. This literary movement soon drifted over to thinking in social justice and the idea that public issues needed to be seen and reformed in light of its human consequences.
Romanticism originated in Europe, but eventually spread to the United States. Romanticism refers to a literary period in which writers were moving away from the Age of Reason and started adding more sensitivity to their writings. Two of the first American romantic writers were Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Transcendentalism.
The Romanticism period of art began at the end of the 18th century. It continued throughout the first half of the 19th century. This period focused on awe, fear, and wonder of the world and its mysteries rather than the colder, more logical Renaissance period.
The term "Romanticism" was first coined by German writers and philosophers in the late 18th century to describe a cultural movement characterized by an emphasis on emotion, individualism, and nature.
Neoclassicism was first seen in the 1780s, Romanticism after 1800.
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The 18th Century. The beginning of the end for the Classical era and the start of the move into Romanticism perhaps occurred in 1800 when Beethoven published his first symphony.
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