Modern Romanticism is a literary and artistic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that placed value on emotion over reason, on the imagination over society. Some sources say Romanticism started in reaction to neo-classicism (or the Enlightenment). Neo-Classicism's duration was until around 1800, which directly precedes the popularization of Romanticism. The focus of Neo-Classicism is essentially reason, balance, clarity, and tradition; the most important result of romanticism was the emphasis laid upon the feeling, passion, nature, and originality.…
