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The Romantic Movement lasted from about 1750 to about 1870, is often
defined as second Renaissance. Romanticism cannot be identified with a single
style, technique, or attitude, but romantic writing is generally characterized by
a highly imaginative and subjective approach, emotional intensity, freedom of
thought and expression, an idealization of nature, and a dreamlike or visionary
quality.
The Romantic Movement is both a revolt and revival .This movement in
literature and the revolutionary idealism in European politics are both
generated by the same human craving for freedom from traditions and tyranny.
The Romantic Movement revives the poetic ideals of love, beauty, emotion,
imagination, romance and beauty of Nature. Keats celebrates beauty, Shelley
adores love, Wordsworth glorifies nature Byron idealizes humanism, Scott
revives the medieval lore and Coleridge amalgamates supernatural. As a result,
the Romantic Movement revolts against the ideals, principles, intellectualism,
aristocracy and technicality of Augustan period and smoothed the run of broad
emotional gallery of substance relinquishing the rigidity of form.