Romanticism:
a Period of Imagination, Nature, and Symbolism
The Romantic Period began in the mid-eighteenth century and extended into the
nineteenth century. Romanticism was about creative thinking, "thinking outside the box",
completely contradicting Neoclassicism, which was about straight forward thinking,
"thinking inside the box". It was a philosophical movement that redefined the
fundamental ways of what people thought about themselves and the world around them.
The Romantic period overlapped with the "age of revolution", which included the
American (1776) and the French (1789) revolutions. This was a time of change, where
new skeptical ideas were "in" and old traditional ones were "out". In romanticism poetry
came new concepts, like the use of imagination, nature, and symbolism. These new
concepts soon became very popular with most of the poets. With these new concepts
came new poets like John Keats, William Blake, and William......
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