Romanticism:
a Period of Imagination, Nature, and Symbolism

The Romantic Period began in the mid-eighteenth century and extended into the

nineteenth century. Romanticism was about creative thinking, "thinking outside the box",

completely contradicting Neoclassicism, which was about straight forward thinking,

"thinking inside the box". It was a philosophical movement that redefined the

fundamental ways of what people thought about themselves and the world around them.

The Romantic period overlapped with the "age of revolution", which included the

American (1776) and the French (1789) revolutions. This was a time of change, where

new skeptical ideas were "in" and old traditional ones were "out". In romanticism poetry

came new concepts, like the use of imagination, nature, and symbolism. These new

concepts soon became very popular with most of the poets. With these new concepts

came new poets like John Keats, William Blake, and William......

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