ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

TRANSCENDENTALISM LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Of the options listed, which do you think was MOST emphasized during the Romantic Period?
A
Love
B
Math
C
Logic
D
Art and Beauty
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Romantic artists helped propel romanticism, an artistic movement that emphasized individualism, emotion, nature, and even political ideologies.

Detailed explanation-2: -The artists emphasized that sense and emotions-not simply reason and order-were equally important means of understanding and experiencing the world. Romanticism celebrated the individual imagination and intuition in the enduring search for individual rights and liberty.

Detailed explanation-3: -Romantic art focused on emotions, feelings, and moods of all kinds including spirituality, imagination, mystery, and fervor. The subject matter varied widely including landscapes, religion, revolution, and peaceful beauty. The brushwork for romantic art became looser and less precise.

Detailed explanation-4: -Romanticism, first defined as an aesthetic in literary criticism around 1800, gained momentum as an artistic movement in France and Britain in the early decades of the nineteenth century and flourished until mid-century.

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