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The Romantic movement in Britain started in 1798 when the Lyrical ballads appeared.Under the leadership of the great and romantic poet Wordsworth..
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One of the central characteristics of the romantic period was an interest in the infinite and a corresponding rejection of classical Greek ideals of finitude, order, harmony, and proportion. The rejection of these classical Greek aesthetic standards led to experimentation in genres and subject matter that had not before been the focus of art or thought. So, for example, the romantics began to explore the grotesque in art, and genres like the Gothic horror novel, which the Greeks would have rejected as mere ugliness, became popular forms of entertainment.
The rejection of classical aesthetics also meant an appreciation of landscapes previously never considered as something beautiful. Today we do not think twice about appreciating the beauty of the sea or a mountain range, but this interest in wilderness and wildness has its origins in romanticism. As long as beauty is defined in terms of order and harmony, it is impossible to see beauty in the wild, though today someone who does not see beauty in wild nature is considered the exception.
Changed aesthetic and intellectual attitudes led to a reassessment of the past. In particular, medieval history and medieval art became important to the romantics, and medieval architecture became an active influence, hence the Neo-gothic and Gothic revival styles.
The romantics placed great emphasis on feeling and intuition as opposed to purely intellectual endeavor, and often claimed the intuition was a “higher” form of knowing than rational understanding. This had a profound effect on philosophy, with a figure no less than Kant asserting the existence of a heretofore unrecognized “faculty” of the human mind. (Read Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, Chap. I, sec. 11 for a hilarious description of this.)
Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility is a send-up of romanticism, intentionally contrasting the solid good sense of the one sister with the heightened “sensibility” of the other sister, who is always going through agonies because of her sensibility. This sensibility was prized by the romantics, however, and they would have said that the sister with sensibility had lived the better life, and in this we see romanticism as the precursor to existentialism and its ideas of engagement and authenticity.
The rejection of classical aesthetics also meant an appreciation of landscapes previously never considered as something beautiful. Today we do not think twice about appreciating the beauty of the sea or a mountain range, but this interest in wilderness and wildness has its origins in romanticism. As long as beauty is defined in terms of order and harmony, it is impossible to see beauty in the wild, though today someone who does not see beauty in wild nature is considered the exception.
Changed aesthetic and intellectual attitudes led to a reassessment of the past. In particular, medieval history and medieval art became important to the romantics, and medieval architecture became an active influence, hence the Neo-gothic and Gothic revival styles.
The romantics placed great emphasis on feeling and intuition as opposed to purely intellectual endeavor, and often claimed the intuition was a “higher” form of knowing than rational understanding. This had a profound effect on philosophy, with a figure no less than Kant asserting the existence of a heretofore unrecognized “faculty” of the human mind. (Read Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, Chap. I, sec. 11 for a hilarious description of this.)
Jane Austen’s novel Sense and Sensibility is a send-up of romanticism, intentionally contrasting the solid good sense of the one sister with the heightened “sensibility” of the other sister, who is always going through agonies because of her sensibility. This sensibility was prized by the romantics, however, and they would have said that the sister with sensibility had lived the better life, and in this we see romanticism as the precursor to existentialism and its ideas of engagement and authenticity.
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