Romantic Movement in Literature
Romantic Movement in literature begin at the end of the 18th century in Western Europe. Romantic period in English literature is generally conceived to extend from 1798, when Wordsworth and Coleridge release their Lyrical Ballads, to 1832, when Sir Walter Scott died (Abrams et al. 1-3).
The old regime in England took its stand in the face of new fervor based on the American and French Revolutions. For those who sympathized with the Revolution, they necessitate a new revolution lead against reason and toward something else, and that “something else” was imagination (Adams 363). Romanticism was a movement marked by a shift in feeling, a shift in sensitivity, as well as a new conception of man’s relation to the natural order and to Nature in specific.
Romanticism also determine the literature of other countries, although not as extensively as those talk about above. In France, the novels of Victor Hugo and Stendhal express some Romantic influence, but they are more often characterized as part of the Realist movement. In Eastern Europe, Russian writers Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov, as well as Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, were between the practitioners of the Romantic Movement.
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