Romanticism versus Neoclassicism

Neoclassical and Romantic movements cover the period of 1750 to 1850. Neoclassicism showed life to be more rational than it really was. The Romantics favoured an interest in nature, picturesque, violent, sublime. Unlike Neo_classicism, which stood for the order, reason, tradition, society, intellect and formal diction, Romanticism allowed people to get away from the constrained rational views of life and concentrate on an emotional and sentimental side of humanity. In this movement the emphasis was on …

…exotic and medieval subjects real world<Tab/>yearning for the infinite and the ideal sensibility as moral force sense of the sublime melancholy musings <Tab/>importance of childhood and the past <Tab/>impossibility of happy love <Tab/>Noble Savage <Tab/>Byronic hero <Tab/>Gothic world: morbid, forbidden impulses, animality, illicit forces