RISE AND EVOLUTION OF ROMANTICISM

Abstract

The aim of this study is to reinvestigate many of a search and claims already suggested about the starting date of the rise of Romantic Movement in Europe, in general and particularly in England. In retrospective effect, Romanticism may be followed and traced back as early the medieval throughout the Elizabethan age ,the seventeenth centuries ,and over to the nineteenth centuries, up to the present time as the original form. Romance which date back to the medieval means ((love story)) where in emotion, reverie, and imagination are emphasized. Shakespeare’s drama both comedies and tragedies are not devoid of romantic qualities and so are his sonnets and songs. During the seventeenth century one poetic movement, cavalries and care free are clearly characteristic of romantic properties. The nineteenth or the Victorian age the Victorian compromise dominated literary work and attached classicism to romanticism in a way or another was an outstanding features of English poetry.