| the late 18th- and early 19th-century movement in France, Germany, England, and America to establish Romanticism in art and literature. |
| romantic movement | |
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| a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization; "Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality" [syn: Romanticism] [ant: classicalism] |