19th Century Romanticism In Europe
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Romanticism began in the early 19th century and radically changed
the way people perceived themselves and the state of nature around them.
Unlike Classicism, which stood for order and established the foundation
for architecture, literature, painting and music, Romanticism allowed
people to get awa ....
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.... to the
poet before the scientist to harbor their convictions (they found that the
orderly, mechanistic universe that the Science thrived under was too
narrow-minded, systematic and downright heartless in terms of feeling or
emotional thought) and it was men such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe in
Germany who wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" which epitomized what
Romanticism stood for. His character expressed feelings from the heart and
gave way to a new trend of expressing emotions through i ....
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