What was the romantic movement? what beliefs did they hold about the nature of the world? of humanity? of religion?
Title: What was the romantic movement? what beliefs did they hold about the nature of the world? of humanity? of religion?
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 869 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
What was the romantic movement? what beliefs did they hold about the nature of the world? of humanity? of religion?
Category: /Literature/European Literature
Details: Words: 869 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
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What was the Romantic Movement?
*<Tab/>Commenced in late 18th century as a consequence of dynamic social change culminating in the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
*<Tab/>Romanticism was an intellectual orientation that was instilled in many works of literature, painting, music etc. in Western civilization between the 1790's and 1840's
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…showed last 75 words of 869 total…who claimed that man was inherently evil.
*<Tab/>Nevertheless, the Romantics believed Christianity to be "the most poetic, most human, the most conducive to freedom, to arts and literature..." of all religions, as written by Rene de Chateaubriand in "The Genius of Christianity".
*<Tab/>The Romantics believed that science was lacking this element that could benefit humanity. They saw science as too systematic, narrow-minded and downright heartless.
