The document outlines the differences between classicism and romanticism in literature. Classicism, prevalent from the 1700s to 1800s, emphasizes reason, tradition, and social order, while romanticism, from 1800 to 1830, focuses on imagination, individual expression, and the mystery of nature. Romantic writers advocate for social reforms and explore the depths of human emotion, contrasting the structured approach of classicism.

1. Difference between Classicism and
Romanticism
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2. What is Classicism and
Romanticism
Definition Definition
 Classicism believed that
reason is the dominating
characteristic of both
nature and human
nature and both are
governed by fixed
unchanging laws.
 A Correctness of
language, and style for
a unique, elite, civilized
class of people.
 Emphasized the
emotions, an
individual intuition.
 Romantic-from
“romance”
 A medieval tale of
poem treating heroic
personages or
events written in
one of the Romance
Languages.

3. Classicism
 18th (1700’s to 1800’s)
 Nature a self contained machine whose
laws could be rationally understood.
 Reason prevails in all provinces of
thought. The universe is capable of
rational explanation as orderly, purposive,
structured and regular.
 Imagination had to be restrained by
reason and common sense.
 Belief in reality, leaving little of validity to
emotion. Mystery and Miracle are
dispelled.

4. Classicism
 Upheld tradition
 Resisted changes
 Human limitation
 Reason over Imagination
 Social over personal
 Common over individual
 All emphasized by Romanticism.

5. Romanticism
 1800-1830
 Imagination gives expression to that
which mark each person’s unique being.
 All art is the imaginative expression of the
inner essence of the individual claim for
individual freedom.
 Development of a sense of awe and
Mystery.

6. Romanticism
 Emphasized the human potential for social
progress and spiritual growth.
 Reflected political ideas in declaration of
Individual. "all men are created equal”
which led to emphasis of dignity and
worth of the common individual and to
social reforms to fulfill this idea of
equality.
 Romantic writers tried to express their
own intuitive experiences.

7. Common Romantic Subject
Nature
 Emphasized beauty, strangeness, mystry of not
rational laws.
 Saw as an organic, process, constantly
developing and changing
 Connection between human imagination and the
natural world.
 The Past
 Later romantic poets used dramatic incidents
from early American History.
Inner World of Human Nature
 The exploration and expression of the Writer’s
most private inner being.
 Interested in the irrational depths of human
nature.

8. A Quick Comparison
 Age of reason
 Reason
 Social(society)
 Common
 Common sense
 Tradition
 Rational Law of
nature
 Age of Romance
 Imagination
 Personal
 Individual freedom
 Intuition
 Social reforms,
spiritual,
growth(change)
 Nature as mystery

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