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Mahmoud Elsherif        Romanticism essay  What is Romanticism?

Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that began in the second half of the 18th Century, it became more powerful during the Industrial Revolution. It was partly due to a revolt against the nobles, social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific explanation of nature, this was fused mostly with visual arts, music and literature.

Romanticism can be seen in literature such as work and publication such as Wordsworth and Coleridge, of  in . The work is highlighted through what was to become the key beliefs of Romanticism, namely the understanding of man and nature, along with an attempt to abandon the flowery language of 18th century. English poetry tried to attempt to portray poetic ideas through a common dialect.

Their work is deeply embedded in the tradition established by Edmund Spenser and John Milton. They, along with , , , and , believe that they were revitalising the true will of English poetry by pursuing the "romance" and inspiring that was lost since Milton.  John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron then included the latter half of the movement, largely continuing in the same tradition, though differing slightly into more metaphysical matters.

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Perhaps this is due to the perceived personal nature of Romantic poetry one which the Romantic Poets themselves are not entirely innocent of encouraging, there has often been a fascination with the lives of the Romantic poets. This view is often strengthened by the imagery invented up in modern communication due to the fact that a number of them died before reaching thirty, notably  and . This has led to a combination of the lives of the Romantic poets with the poetry itself.

Romantic music is a movement which refers to the expression and expansion of musical ideas established in ...

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