Literary Movement Reading Challenge 2015 – April: Romanticism (1798 – 1870)

Romanticism is concerned with the individual more than with society. The individual consciousness and especially the individual imagination are especially fascinating for the Romantics. “Melancholy” was quite the buzzword for the Romantic poets. There was a coincident downgrading of the importance and power of reason, clearly a reaction against the Enlightenment mode of thinking. On top of this, there was a clearly mystical quality to Romantic writing that sets it apart from other literary periods. [Source 1] [Source 2]

Some of the Romantics authors:

(you may pick other authors outside this list)

Sir Walter Scott

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mary Shelley

Edgar Allan Poe

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Herman Melville

Walt Whitman

John Keats

Alexandre Dumas

You can submit your review posts on Romanticism books in the linky below (linky will be opened on April 15^th, 2015)