The Romantic Period Stressed Instincts, Affection, and Love

The Romantic period or Romanticism was a literary movement that had sprung in England in late 18th century. The rise of the movement was precipitated by the issuing of Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge .The movement came to cope up with the general tenors of the Industrial and Enlightenment age .It stressed on things like instincts, affection , love,the heart over the head .It came also to celebrate such things as mysticism and the natural world.Romanticism also highlighted feelings as fear, fright, terror, horror and wonderment. The movement had been established upon a motley of founding stones among them are Man’s uninon and harmony with the natural world, Man’s detachment from nature , human fallibility, human reconciliation with the divine and the belief in redemption and Man’s retrieval from sin through the contemplation of nature. 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