The Romantic Period
The Romantic Period The Stour Valley with the Church of Dedham. John Constable 1814 One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can. ~from “The Tables Turned,” William Wordsworth, 1798. Background & Literature Romanticism is the term applied to the literary and artistic movement that took place between 1785 and 1832 in Western Europe. Occurring in the context of the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, and the social, political, and economic changes that occurred following the Augustan Age , Romanticism moved away from an emphasis on the importance of an empirical, materilal worldview and looked to the imagination and nature as sources of insight. Writers expressed a great reverence for nature and believed that intuition, emotion, and imagination were more instructive than empiricism and reason. The Romantic Period overthrew the values instilled during the Augustan Age and strove to sev...
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