"Beauty is truth, truth beauty, that is all

Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

- john keats
ROMANTICISM
A movement in art and literature in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in revolt against
the Neoclassicism of the previous centuries. It believes that imagination is superior to reason
and devotion to beauty; love of and worship of nature; and fascination with the past, especially
the myths and mysticism of the middle ages.
MAJOR CAUSES OF ROMANTICISM
01- Industrial Revolution
02- French Revolution

CHARACTERISTICS OF ROMANTICISM
01- Subjectivity
02- Love for Nature
03- Love for Supernatural
04- Love for Beauty
05- Emphasis on Imagination
06- Melancholic Mood
07- Revolutionary Zeal
08- An Obsessive Interest
ROMANTICISM EMPHASIZED
the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous,
the emotional, the visionary, the revolutionary zeal and the transcendental.
Prepared by: M. Faysal
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