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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

... may flag, or vanish for a time, but their restoration in increased vigor and radiance is certain; for, they bear within themselves the guarantee of a future. Henriette Herz, the apostate daughter of Judaism chewing the cud of Schleiermacher's sentimentality and Schlegel's romanticism, had not yet passed away when England produced Jewish women whose deeds were quickened by the spirit of olden heroism, who walked in the paths of wisdom and faith, and, recoiling from the cowardice that counsels apostasy, would have fought, if need ...

— Jewish Literature and Other Essays • Gustav Karpeles

... younger than Beethoven Schubert lived but a year after he had passed away and died in 1828, two years later than Weber, and felt the glow of the spirit of romanticism. From the perennial fount of song within his breast there streamed fresh melodious strains through his symphonies, the ninth and last of which, the C major, ranks him with the great symphonists. Intense poetic sentiment, dreamy yet strong musical individuality, romantic fulness of ...

— For Every Music Lover - A Series of Practical Essays on Music • Aubertine Woodward Moore

... It has bound the world together and has helped men to think socially. Turning their attention away from the romanticism of history, the materialistic philosophy has helped them to look at realities. It has engendered a fine concern about average people, about the voiceless multitudes who have been left to pass unnoticed. Not least among the blessings is a shattering of the good-and-bad-man ...

— A Preface to Politics • Walter Lippmann

... even to this day. It had its great success in mechanical natural science, with which Romanticism will least of ...

— Selected Essays • Karl Marx

... "the first poem I ever read," he says, and the bosky glades of Elmwood were often transformed into an enchanted forest where the Knight of the Red Cross, and Una and others in medieval costume passed up and down before his wondering eyes. This medieval romanticism was a perfectly natural accompaniment ...

— The Vision of Sir Launfal - And Other Poems • James Russell Lowell

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