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ROMANTICISM AND REALISM
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Development in craftsmanship and literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth hundreds of years in rebellion against the Neoclassicism of the past centuries. The German writer Friedrich Schlegel, who is given kudos for first utilizing the term sentimental to portray literature, characterized it as "literature delineating enthusiastic matter in an innovative structure." It is as precise a general definition as can be proficient, in spite of the fact that Victor Hugo's expression "progressivism in literature" is likewise well-suited. Creative energy, feeling, and flexibility is unquestionably the central purposes of romanticism. Any rundown of specific attributes of the literature of romanticism incorporates subjectivity and an accentuation on independence; suddenness; flexibility from the guidelines; single life as opposed to life in the public arena. The convictions that creative energy is better than reason and dedication to excellence; affection for and love of nature; and interest in the past, particularly the myths and supernatural quality of the …show more content…

Romanticism can be seen as a dismissal of the statutes of the request, quiet, amicability, equalization, romanticizing, and objectivity that encapsulated Classicism by and vast and late eighteenth-century Neoclassicism individually. It was likewise to some degree a response against the Enlightenment and against eighteenth-century realism and physical realism when all is said in done. Romanticism underscored the individual, the subjective, the silly, the innovative, the person, the unconstrained, the enthusiastic, the visionary, and the

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