Romantic Movement

American  

noun

1. the late 18th- and early 19th-century movement in France, Germany, England, and America to establish Romanticism in art and literature.

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Etymology

Origin of Romantic Movement

First recorded in 1875–80

Example Sentences

According to the catalog of courses, English 72 deals with the Romantic Movement in English Poetry, the most fascinating period in English Literature except for the Elizabethan outburst.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Pioneering," wrote Lewis Mumford, "may in part be described as the Romantic Movement in action."

From Time Magazine Archive

One of them is tiny, big-voiced John Livingston Lowes, 66, keen student of the Romantic Movement.

From Time Magazine Archive

Notes of Byron in a copy of "Ossian," see Phelps' "English Romantic Movement," pp. 153-54.

From A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)

But we have seen how, in the Renaissance and the Romantic Movement, individualism supplanted these values.

From Preaching and Paganism by Fitch, Albert Parker