ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Although writers of this time did not think of themselves as Romantics, Victorian writers later classified them in this way because of their ability to capture the emotion and tenderness of man.

Detailed explanation-2: -Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism, clandestine literature, paganism, idealization of nature, suspicion of science and industrialization, as well as glorification of the past with a strong preference for the medieval rather than the classical.

Detailed explanation-3: -The name “romantic” itself comes from the term “romance” which is a prose or poetic heroic narrative originating in the medieval. The ideals of the French Revolution influenced the Romantic movement in other ways.