Literary Interpretations - Romanticism - 1790 - 19th Century

Romanticism  - 1790 through 19^th Century.

Romanticism was a clear break from traditional literature and poetry.  It emphasized individual expression and ignored the decorum and structure of Classic Theory.   Emotive writing was taking to the extremes with “rapture, nostalgia, horror, melancholy, or sentimentality” (294-295).  It often compared and contrasted man against nature. 

Works Cited

 Baldick, Chris. The Oxford Diction of Literary Terms. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2008. Print.