The Romanticism era or movement was basically a rebellion of the typical or mainstream idea of literature. This was a very strong movement, it was accepted and practiced by approximately two thirds of the popular writting population. It began in Germany and England in the 1770s, by the 1820s it had taken over all of Europe, it even took over the most "by the book," country, France. Then it made it's way into the western world, and in its musical form has triumphed around the globe, so that from London to Tokyo to Texas, the most popular orchestral music in the world is that of the romantic era. During the next hundred years the romantic literature and music was harshly condemned by the academic and professional world of Western hemisphere. John Williams wrote and directed one of the most distinctive songs in the entire world, The Imperial March, otherwise known as the theme song for the movie Star Wars, it was the sound of 19th-century Romanticism still the most popular style for epic film soundtracks.
             Since the Romantic movement started, it has transformed poetry, the novel, drama, painting, sculpture, all forms of concert music, and ballet. It was deeply connected with the politics of the time. It was the voice of revolution at the beginning of the 19th century and the voice of the Establishment at the end of it.
             Some of the earliest changes made by the Romantic movement are during the mid-18th-century interest in folklore which arose in Germany with Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm collecting popular fairy tales. In England it was perpetuated with Joseph Addison and Richard Steele re-writting old ballads as if they were poetry. These activities set into action one aspect of Romanticism: the belief that products of the uncultivated popular imagination could equal or even surpass those of the educated court poets and composers who had previously monopolized the attentions of scholars and connoisseurs.
             During much of the 17th and 18th cen...