Romanticism as a Revolution

Romanticism is an intellectual artistic and philosophical movement that originated in late 18th century Western Europe, and redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. The term 'Romanticism' derives ultimately from the fictional romances written during the middle ages and involved episodic adventures of a single individual.These were notable for their use of magic and focus on personal characteristics of honor and valor with a …

…to fragmentation: their compulsion to express themselves in long continuous poems is as quite as remarkable as their lyrical gifts. This feature of unlimited continuity is connected with sense of vehicular energy, of being carried along by a greater force. Thus, Romanticism is a celebration of imaginative liberation by the abandonment of reason, social restrictions, and any limitations of traditional release of the energetic, joyful, creative individual into a world of infinite potential. &