ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Approximately when did the English Romantic literary movement take place?
A
1570-1650
B
1670-1750
C
1770-1850
D
1870-1950
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Romantic Period began roughly around 1798 and lasted until 1837. The political and economic atmosphere at the time heavily influenced this period, with many writers finding inspiration from the French Revolution. There was a lot of social change during this period.

Detailed explanation-2: -Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century; in most areas it was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

Detailed explanation-3: -Romanticism started in Western Europe, around the middle of the 18th century. At this time, the dominant artistic and cultural movement is Neoclassicism, which finds its inspiration in the aesthetics of ancient civilizations.

Detailed explanation-4: -The romantic period of American literature took place from 1830 to 1870 and emphasized nature, symbolism, transcendentalism, and individualism. Key authors of this period include Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Walt Whitman.

Detailed explanation-5: -Romanticism began as a late eighteenth-century philosophy that embraced imagination, emotion, and the unknown. Affecting history, literature, religion, art, and home life, Romanticism offered an escape from the stresses of the early Industrial Revolution.

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