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Romanticism Quotes. By Lydia Palos. “The Romantic Movement marked for many people the abandonment of the idea that there was a given order in nature; it posited the notion that order was something not discovered in nature but created by the human mind.”
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Romanticism Quotes By Lydia Palos
“The Romantic Movement marked for many people the abandonment of the idea that there was a given order in nature; it posited the notion that order was something not discovered in nature but created by the human mind.” - Introduction into the Romantic Era in English Poetry By Ian Johnston (Lecturer)
“The period designated by literary historians as ‘Romantic’ is associated with the political and social insurgencies which erupted first in America and then in France in the later years of the eighteenth century.” - A Prologue to English Literature: From 1789 to 1832
“Were one to point to what might be considered distinctive of the moment [of Romanticism], it would be this: that unquenchable aspiration for universal betterment, the reclaiming of paradise.” - Introduction to Romanticism: An Anthology (1998) By Duncan Wu
“This association of Romanticism with revolution, human inspiration and aspiration, the noumenal and the transcendent…” - Enlightening Romanticism, Romancing the Enlightenment, British Novels from 1750 to 1832 by Miriam L. Wallace
"I am not made like anyone I have seen; I dare believe I am not made like anyone in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different.“ • Rousseau (Indicates the Romantic tenant of individualism)