Explainer: how Romanticism rebelled against cold-hearted rationality
- Written by Matthew Ryan, Lecturer in Literature, Australian Catholic University
William Blake, Pity, 1795, Tate.William Blake/Wikimedia Commons
Romanticism is often fixed within a period running from the late-18th to early-19th century. But Romanticism as a cultural movement and as a set of ideas influencing visual art, literature, philosophy and politics, bleeds out beyond these designated boundaries.
Indeed, its influence...
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