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Romanticism

Romanticism is an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement and is considered as the most important historical events since it refers to the birth of a new set of ideas it's about a mind set in a way of feeling.

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Artists including the poets Goethe, Wordsworth and Keats; the composers Bruckner, Hoffmann and Bertin; and the painters Delacroix, Géricault, Blake, Turner and Friedrich demonstrate the diversity of the movement.

It changed how millions of people look at nature children love money and work . Romanticism is best understood as a reaction to the birth of the modern world and some of its key features industrialization urbanization secularization and consumerism.

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“THERE IS A PLEASURE IN THE PATHLESS WOODS, THERE IS A RAPTURE ON THE LONELY SHORE, THERE IS SOCIETY, WHERE NONE INTRUDES, BY THE DEEP SEA, AND MUSIC IN ITS ROAR: I LOVE NOT MAN THE LESS, BUT NATURE MORE"

Lord Byron

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