Romanticism

Romanticism: A movement in art and literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in revolt against the Neoclassicism of the previous centuries...Imagination, emotion, and freedom are certainly the focal points of romanticism. Any list of particular characteristics of romanticism includes subjectivity and an emphasis on individualism; spontaneity; freedom from rules; solitary life rather than life in society; the beliefs that imagination is superior to reason; love of and worship of nature; and fascination with the past, especially the myths and mysticism of the middle ages.