Romanticism
The Movement
Romanticism
•	“I felt before I thought.” --Jean Jacques Rousseau 
•	Romanticism is a term that originally meant "romance-like" --resembling the fanciful character of the Medieval romances. 
1750-1840
•	It also describes an artistic and literary movement inspired by Goethe and Rousseau, that was prevalent in Europe and America between 1750 and 1840.  
•	Dates ARE NOT DEFINITIVE!!!!  They give a general guideline. 
What Is Romanticism?
•	Romanticism:  a term used to describe certain allied aspects of human thought and behavior that surface in individuals and cultures through out history. 
•	Romantic temperament is characterized by a tendency to extol feeling, imagination and intuition over analysis and reason

•	a preference for solitude and subjectivity 
•	a sense of alienation and melancholia.
•	 mystical relationship with Nature from which the romantic derives a deep sense of the sublime: an obscure yet profound realization of the vast mystery at the heart of all existence. http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/7259/romanticism.html