Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe in the late 18th century as a reaction against the rationalism of the Enlightenment. It emphasized emotion, imagination, individualism, and an appreciation of nature. Romantic poets such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats rejected societal conventions and expressed themselves through poetry focused on feelings, childhood innocence, solitude, and the relationship between humans and nature.
Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe in the late 18th century as a reaction against the rationalism of the Enlightenment. It emphasized emotion, im…