Western Civilization II / Unit 10 WC2 0906 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Romanticism: Awe, Nature, and the Artist as Genius
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The idea
Romanticism was an arts movement of the late eighteenth century that came of age in the nineteenth: tribute to forces beyond reason, nature, the soul, death, a people's spirit; humankind small before nature; peasants closest to it; the artist an unteachable genius; emotion above all.
In practice
The Enlightenment's opposite in temperament.
Where people slip
Not political, the anchor says, yet it planted nationalism's seeds by accident.
Your place on the trail
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