The Romantic Period Literature

Romantic ideas centered around art as inspiration, the spiritual and aesthetic dimension of nature, and metaphors of organic growth. Art, rather than science, Romantics argued, could best express universal truth. The Romantics underscored the importance of expressive art for the individual and society. Major political and social charges at the end of the 18th century, particularly the French Revolution, prompted a new breed of writing know as Romanticism. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Col