Question

what is romanticism?explain in easy language

Answer 1

Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement which took place in Europe between the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Understood broadly as a break from the guiding principles of the Enlightenment – which established reason as the foundation of all knowledge – the Romantic Movement emphasised the importance of emotional sensitivity and individual subjectivity. For the Romantics, imagination, rather than reason, was the most important creative faculty.

Answer 2

Romanticism is a national feeling which sought to develop a particular form of nationalist sentiment.

Romantic writers and artists criticized the glorification of reason and science.

German Philosopher Johann Gottfried herder tried to discover culture among common people through folk song,folk poetry and folk dances