1800 - 1850
Precedes Victorian Era
Contained
- Supernatural elements
- glorification of past
- nature and its beauty
- emphasized intense emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience
- revived medievalism
- intuition and emotion to the rationalism of the Enlightenment
- “spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” - William Wordsworth
Enlightment → (Age of Samuel Johnson/Sensibility) → Romantic → Realism
Important writers from this period -