Definition of Romanticism

Romanticism

A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi/val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style.

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Romanticism Quotations

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Charles Baudelaire

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
Arthur Rimbaud

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism.
Thomas Mann

I was taken by the romanticism of being thought of as an adult and living in a world that was completely new to me. I fell in love with acting then.
Mariel Hemingway

Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.
Dawn Powell

I am a big fan of vampires. I've always been obsessed with the genre, and the beautiful romanticism and erotic kind of nature of the immortal being, the undead who lives on human blood.
Alex O'Loughlin

I set about seeking a thread, a theme, a style, in the realm of legend. Something that might allow me to give free rein to my juvenile sense of romanticism and the beautiful image.
Leni Riefenstahl

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Romanticism Translations

romanticism in Dutch is romantiek
romanticism in Finnish is romantiikka
romanticism in German is Romantik
romanticism in Hungarian is romantika, romanticizmus
romanticism in Italian is romanticismo
romanticism in Swedish is romantik

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