ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Romanticism was a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and also a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. Romanticism legitimized the individual imagination as a critical authority, which permitted freedom from classical notions of form in art.

Detailed explanation-2: -With its emphasis on the imagination and emotion, Romanticism emerged as a response to the disillusionment with the Enlightenment values of reason and order in the aftermath of the French Revolution of 1789.

Detailed explanation-3: -Romanticism was born out of a sense of disillusionment with the Enlightenment. One source of disillusionment was that the Enlightenment thinkers through the pursuit of reason had backed themselves in a corner. In the end it was the philosopher David Hume that took reason to its ultimate skeptical end.

Detailed explanation-4: -Romanticism was the inevitable reaction to Enlightenment Rationalism. The artistic and literary works of the Romantic movement have lasting appeal, because the human faculty of emotion runs stronger and deeper than the intellect or the will.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Romantic movement in literature was preceded by the Enlightenment and succeeded by Realism. Some authors cite 16th-century poet Isabella di Morra as an early precursor of Romantic literature.