Romanticism was an artistic movement that originated in 18th century Europe that emphasized emotion, nature, and individualism over reason and rules. It encouraged passionate self-expression in literature and valued imagination and intuition over logic. Some key authors of the Romantic period included Washington Irving, the first American to achieve international fame, and William Cullen Bryant, who produced high quality poetry after moving from rural Massachusetts to New York City. Romanticism saw nature as a source of inspiration and escape from urban life.

1. ROMANTICISM

2. DEFINITION OF ROMANTICISM
 often Romanticism An artistic and intellectual movement
originating in Europe in the late 18th century and
characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis
on the individual's expression of emotion and imagination,
departure from the attitudes and forms of classicism, and
rebellion against established social rules and conventions.

3. ROMANTICISM’S PHILOSOPHY
 Romanticisms began in the 18th century.
 Romanticism emphasizes passion rather than reason,
and imagination and intuition rather than logic.
 It encourages authors to write more about emotions.
 Romanticism is still present today in literature.

4. ROMANTICISM AUTHORS
 Washington Irving was the first American writer to
achieve international fame in romanticism.
 “In his twenties, Bryant left the rural scenes and Puritan
conservatism of western Massachusetts for New York City.
He produced a small body of verse of such a high quality
that he is knowkn

5. ROMANTICISM SENSIBILITY
 The Rationalistic view of urban life is replaced by the
romantic view.
 Romantics associated the country with independence moral
clarity and purity.. And idyllic place of escape.
 Romantics value feeling and intuition over reason.
 Imagination , emotion , spontaneity, feeling and nature and
more important than rational thought.

6. PRINCIPLES OF ROMANTICISMS
 Sincerity ,spontaneity, and faith in emotions as the
markers of the truth .
 Focus on the individual.. What is special in man is to be
value over what is representative…emphasis on self-
analysis.
 Nature as a source of instruction delight and nourishment
for the soul return to nature as a source of inspiration and
wisdom ; celebration pf mans connection to nature often
contrasted with the unnatural constraints of society