Category:Romanticism

Ro*man"ti*cism, n. Etym: [cf. It. romanticismo, f. romantisme, Romanticisme.]

Defn: a fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; Specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- Applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to Revive certain medi He [lessing] may be said to have begun the revolt from pseudo- Classicism in poetry, and to have been thus unconsciously the founder Of romanticism. Lowell.