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Romanticism vs Neoclassicism
Title: Romanticism vs Neoclassicism
Category: Literature / European Literature
Details: Words: 3334 | Pages: 14.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Romanticism vs Neoclassicism
Resulting in part from the libertarian and egalitarian ideals of the French Revolution, the
romantic movements had in common only a revolt against the prescribed rules of classicism.
The basic aims of romanticism were various: a return to nature and to belief in the goodness
of humanity; the rediscovery of the artist as a supremely individual creator; the development
of nationalistic pride; and the exaltation of the senses and emotions over reason and intellect.
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…showed last 75 words of 3334 total…loving and all the joy and sorrow associated with these conditions. Keats' brilliance in using excess to 'attract' rather than 'detract' from his ideas, gives the reader a greater appreciation of not only his work, but also John Keats, the man and the poet.
It could not be better expressed than that said by Keats himself in a letter to his brothers in December, 1817, where he stated,
'...the excellence of every art is its intensity'.
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