Romanticism in America

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Introduction
Romanticism can be defined as a movement in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries which marked the reactions towards literature, art, politics, religion and philosophy from formal orthodoxy and neoclassicism of the earlier periods. It arose steadily and had many different phases that there is no specific definition that can be assigned to it. According to Hugo’s phrase liberalism in literature, he tries to bring out the meaning in relation to freeing of writers and artistes from rules and restrains that suggested a phase of individualism that was marked with encouragement of revolutionary political ideas. A poet Heines notes that the main aspect in German romanticism is the way they called it, the revival of the medievalism in letters, art and life in general. The most interesting thing is the schematic explanation that calls romanticism the predominance of imagination over formal rules and reason which is classicism. Furthermore, it might be over the actual or sense of fact which is realism (Bryant 90). Therefore, for something to be romantic it should be real. For instance, the class beauty of the Greek temple existed mainly in its original and actual form. This term can be used in many senses and ways, the most recent favorite being that that sees the romantic mood of a psychological desire to try and escape from the unpleasant realities.
In the book the Romantic Temper, it talks about the romantic focus that was on spiritual or internal, physical reality against reality that led to the transcend list moveme...