Romanticism is a style in the fine arts and literature. It emphasizes passion rather than reason, and imagination and inspiration rather than logic. Romanticism favors full expression of the emotions, and is spontaneous instead of complete order. In all these ways romanticism contrasts with another style called classicism. Periods of romanticism usually develop as a revolt and protest against classicism and many artists and writers throughout history have shown romantic tendencies.
             Among the characteristic attitudes of Romanticism were the following: a deepened appreciation of the beauties of nature; a general exaltation of emotion over reason and of the senses over intellect; a turning in upon the self and a heightened examination of human personality and its moods and mental potentialities; a preoccupation with the genius, the hero, and the exceptional figure in general, and a focus on his passions and inner struggles; a new view of the artist as a supremely individual creator, whose creative spirit is more important than strict adherence to formal rules and traditional procedures; an emphasis upon imagination as a gateway to an inspiring experience and spiritual truth; an obsessive interest in folk culture, national and ethnic cultural origins, and the medieval era; and a predilection for the exotic, the remote, the mysterious, the weird, the occult, the monstrous, the diseased, and even the satanic.
             During the Romantic Movement, most the writers disliked their world. Most writings were of legends and folklores, as seen in, Grimm's Fairy Tales, collected by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm. Many typically romantic characteristics appear in the poetry of William Wordsworth of England. He preferred a dreamy, pensive mood to an organized, scientific search for truth. He also believed that we learn more by using nature then by reading books. And he also believed that conversations with simple peasants taught us more abou
             ...