Romanticism is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ROMANTICISM in dictionary:

NOUN:
• romantic quality, feeling or tendency
• a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.
• the state or quality of being romantic
• 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.
• impractical romantic ideals and attitudes
• a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization
• an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• often capitalized a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century, characterized chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions, and marked especially in English literature by sensibility and the use of autobiographical material, an exaltation of the primitive and the common man, an appreciation of external nature, an interest in the remote, a predilection for melancholy, and the use in poetry of older verse forms; an aspect of romanticism; adherence to a romantic attitude or style

Words related to ROMANTICISM

romanticisms18 romanticist15 romanticists16

Words that contain ROMANTICISM

romanticisms18 antiromanticism21 superromanticism24 antiromanticisms22 superromanticisms25

How to use ROMANTICISM in a sentence

• Romanticism was marked by intense human sympathy, and by a consequent understanding of the human heart.
• Had Wordsworth and Coleridge written only this one little book, they would still be among the representative writers of an age that proclaimed the final triumph of Romanticism.
• She had little sympathy with the romanticism of Scott or the idealism of Dickens.
• Then, as now, marriage, while accepted as the ultimate state, was only to be considered through a haze of idealism and romanticism.
• When this movement had exhausted itself there came by inevitable reaction a period of materialism, when realism succeeded romanticism and prose fiction largely replaced verse.
• Here is romanticism united with a scientific conscience and power of destructive analysis balanced by moral enthusiasm.
• Morris and his friends were active in the fresh dawn of a new romanticism, a mediaeval and Catholic revival, with very little Catholicism in it for the most part.
• This novel is one of the best products of German Romanticism.
• For it is beside the mark to speak of their opposition to romanticism as a ground for the charge in question.
• And with this more obvious romanticism goes the deeper romanticism that comes from the interpretation of humanity, which assumes it to be kindly and gentle and noble in the main.
• The new romanticism and idealism of our day marks this return.
• The discussions on romanticism, then so fierce in the world outside, found their way into the college and all our talk was of Lamartine and Victor Hugo.
• Dupanloup did not go all the way with the champions of romanticism, but he was much more with them than against them.
• He was never tired of laughing at the characteristic German romanticism which was so enthusiastic for the welfare of other nations.
• But then, they are both men, and when it comes to soaring in the regions of romanticism you must not expect too much of men.
• He has views on the Pre-Raphaelites, Romanticism, and the Housing Question.
• The first requisite in opera, it would appear, is that it be pervaded by an atmosphere of romanticism.
• Coming after Delacroix, and parallel with Courbet, it was a piece of romanticism tempered by logic, with more correctness of observation, more perfection in the handling.
• Yes, our generation has been soaked in romanticism, and we have remained impregnated with it.
• In Germany, as in England, during the eighteenth century, the history of romanticism is a history of arrested development.
• The newcomers found England in possession of a native romanticism of a very robust type, by the side of which the imported article showed like a delicate exotic.
• There was something mutually repellent between the more typical phases of English and German romanticism.
• Perhaps romanticism, like transcendentalism, found a more congenial soil in New than in Old England.
• A second distinction of the French romanticism was its local concentration at Paris.
• Diffused Romanticism in the Literature of the Nineteenth Century.

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