Romanticism in literature

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ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE 
Dr. Anupama Jena 
Assistant Professor 
Department of Humanities 
Regional College of Management, Bhubaneswar, India 
Abstract: The term "Romantic" is derived from the old French ‘Romans’ and is denoted as a 
vernacular language derived from the Latin word that provides us the expression "the 
Romance languages", but it came to mean more than a language. It not only meant an 
imaginative story and a courtly romance but also implies the quality and preoccupations of 
literature written in "the Romance languages", especially romances and stories. However, 
day by day, it came to mean so many other things also. By the seventeenth century in 
English, the French word "romantic" had come to mean anything which is from imaginative 
or fictitious, fabulous or extravagant, fanciful or bizarre, exaggerated and fanciful. The 
adjective "roman-tic" was also used with the connotation of disapproval. In the eighteenth 
century, it was increasingly used with various connotations of approval, especially in the 
descriptions of pleasing qualities in the landscape. To elaborate on the poetry of the 
Romantic period (about 1780-1830) the term "romantic" has all these and other meanings 
and connotations behind it, which reflects the complexity and multiplicity of the European 
Romanticism 
Index Terms: Romantic, civilization, society, particular, century, common, spontaneous, 
personal 
 
1. INTRODUCTION:
 
Romanticism was one of the literary movements that began in the late 18th century and 
ended around the middle of the 19th century—although its influence continues to date. It is 
marked by focusing on the individual (the unique perspective of a person that is often guided 
by irrational and emotional impulses), a respect for nature as a whole, and a celebration of 
the common man. Romanticism is visible clearly as a reaction to the drastic changes in the 
society that occurred during this period, including the revolutions that spread like wildfire 
through the countries like France and the United States, ushering in the grand experiments in 
democracy.
Romanticism, its attitude or intellectual orientation has characterized many works of 
literature, art, music, architecture, criticism, historiography, and the other fields of the 
Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid 19th century. Romanticism 
can be seen as a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization, and 
rationality that typified classicism in general and late 18th-century Neoclassicism in 
particular. It was also to some extent a reaction against the Enlightenment and 18th-century 

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