Romanticism

In general, Romanticism is the name given to those schools of thought that value feeling and intuition over reason. The first rumblings of Romanticism were felt in Germany in the second half of the eighteenth century. Romanticism had a strong influence on literature, music, and painting in Europe and England well into the nineteenth century. (Fay 90)When it finally arrived in America, it took different forms.

Romanticism, especially in Europe, developed as part of a reaction against rationalism. The Romantics came to believe that, through the imagination, you could discover truths that the rational mind could not reach. To the Romantics, the ...