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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