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

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Romantic Movement

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

At the beginning of the nineteenth century there was a great revival in English literature, since known as the "Romantic Movement."

From Stories That Words Tell Us by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Speakman) O'Neill

Condorcet, 713. and French Revolution, 713 ff. and Romantic Movement, 715 ff.

From The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith