What is romanticism era?
Romanticism (1770 – 1850) Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement of the late 18th century and the early to mid 19th century that stressed strong emotion, imagination, freedom from classical correctness in art forms, and rebellion against social conventions and the rationalization of nature by the Enlightenment. In the mid-19th century, it was gradually replaced by Realism and Modernism, but it lived on in the Decadent and Symbolist movements, Surrealism and Existentialism. [Dec 2006] Romanticism was one of the first artistic movements to reappraise “low culture”, when previously maligned medieval romances and national folklores started to influence literary fiction. [Apr 2006] Industrial Revolution: Concurrent with the industrial revolution there developed an intellectual and artistic hostility towards the new industrialisation known as the Romantic Movement. Its major exponents included the artist and poet William Blake, and poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coler