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

"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

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

Balzac died in 1850, and at about that time the Romantic Movement came to an end.

From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton

We must now glance at the effects which the Romantic Movement produced upon the art which was destined to fill so great a place in the literature of the nineteenth century—the art of prose fiction.

From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton