Romantics rejected the traditional aesthetic values of the 18th century and classically inspired art. The styles and methods used in the Romantic era are anything but idealized, balanced, ...

Wed., 17 Jan.: Marshall Brown, "Romanticism and Enlightenment," in The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, Stuart Curran, ed. (1993), pp. 25-47. William Cowper and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ...

One of the most romantic true stories of the 18th century is a perfect illustration of how the idea of romance has changed over time. In Kilkenny, an Irish aristocrat named Eleanor Butler was at ...

Gallery Network Spotlight: How 18th-Century Romanticism Inspired Artist Richard Hambleton, the ‘Godfather’ of Street Art. The artist's work is now on view in "Beyond the Shadowman" at Chase ...

Joe Miller Hello readers, and welcome to the inaugural edition of Reason and Romanticism. You may have noticed that Library Lines hasn’t been around the last few weeks. Hallie Herold is now sole ...

His status as a tormented icon of the Romantic movement was confirmed when he took an overdose of arsenic in ... the 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton was thought to have committed suicide to ...

Romanticism emerged as an ideology in Europe in the mid-18th century in the minds of poets, artists and philosophers, and it has now conquered the world, powerfully (yet always quietly ...

The Romantic movement, which emerged in the late 18th century and persisted throughout the 19th century, is the foundational backdrop for the tortured poet archetype.

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