Romantic ideas centered around art as inspiration, the spiritual and aesthetic dimension of nature, and metaphors of organic growth. Art, rather than science, Romantics argued, could best express universal truth. The Romantics underscored the importance of expressive art for the individual and society.
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Emily Dickinson was associated with the literary movement of Romanticism, which emphasized individualism, emotion, nature, and imagination. She is often considered a pre-modernist writer for her innovative use of language and form.
Lyrical Ballads
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Neoclassicism preceded Romanticism.
individual inspiration; emotion
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A literary movement is a set of stylistic or thematic elements shared by writers of the same place and time. An example is Romanticism.
Romanticism is a literary movement characterized by its preference for untamed nature, emotion, and the individual imagination. It sought to break free from strict literary conventions and emphasized the beauty and power of nature, as well as the expression of intense emotions. Key figures of this movement include William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Lord Byron.
A literary movement that stressed reliance upon emotion and nature over reason and logic as a moral guide to life.