literary terms:

Romanticism: Literary movement of the late 18^th and early 19^th century. It can be seen as a rejection of the concepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, idealization and rationality. It was also a reaction against the Enlightenment. The romantics believed in a return to nature  and in the innate goodness of humans. They emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental. They also showed interest in the medieval, exotic, primitive, and the nationalistic. English literary romanticism began from the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 to the death of Walter Scot in 1832.