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Romanticism

noun

Impractical romantic ideals and attitudes.

A movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization. Synonym: Romantic Movement.

An exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure). Synonym: romance.

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"Romanticism" Quotes from Famous Books

... that bears the date of 1822, some years before the future author of Legende des Siecles had taken up romanticism, Alfred de Vigny had already conceived the idea of setting forth, in a series of little epics, the migrations of the human soul throughout the ages. "One feels," said he in his Preface, "a keen intellectual delight in transporting one's self, by mere force of thought, to a period of antiquity; ...

— Cinq Mars, Complete • Alfred de Vigny

... Barbusse is one of the most distinguished contemporary French writers of short stories, he has found in the novel form the most fitting literary medium for the expression of his philosophy, and it is to realism rather than romanticism that he turns for the exposition of his special imaginative point of view. And yet this statement seems to need some qualification. In his introduction to "Pointed Roofs," by Dorothy Richardson, Mr. J.D. Beresford ...

— The Inferno • Henri Barbusse

Words linked to "Romanticism" : arts, humanistic discipline, romantic, romanticist, idealism, stardust, humanities, classicism, quality, liberal arts, artistic style, romanticistic, idiom