Musical Definition, History, Broadway, Examples, & Details
Henry Wallis, The Death of Chatterton 1856, by suicide at 17 in 1770In literature, Romanticism found recurrent themes in the evocation or criticism of the past, the cult of “sensibility” with its emphasis on girls and kids, the isolation of the artist or narrator, and respect for nature. Furthermore, a quantity of romantic authors, corresponding to Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Maturin and Nathaniel Hawthorne, based their writings on the supernatural/occult and human psychology. Romanticism tended to treat satire as something unworthy of significant consideration, a view still influential at present. The Romantic motion …

