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Romantic Movement
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Romantic Movement
the revolt in the late 18th and early 19th cent. against the artistic, political, and philosophical principles that had become associated with neoclassicism: characterized in literature, music, painting, etc. by freedom of form, emphasis on feeling, originality, and the creative imagination and on the artist's own personality, and by sympathetic interest in nature, medievalism, the common man, etc.
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