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

The Romantic Movement was not merely a new way of considering human beings in their public capacity; it meant also a new kind of sensitiveness to their environment.

From Shelley by Waterlow, Sydney

The lines upon which the Romantic Movement was to develop had no connexion whatever with Chénier's exquisite art.

From Landmarks in French Literature by Strachey, Giles Lytton