romanticism
[rәu'mæntisizm]
n. 浪漫精神, 浪漫



romanticism
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1. impractical romantic ideals and attitudes

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2. a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization

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Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality

3. an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)

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Romanticism \Ro*man"ti*cism\, n. [CF. It. romanticismo, F.
romantisme, romanticisme.]
A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities;
specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic
effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers
who sought to revive certain medi?val forms and methods in
opposition to the so-called classical style.

He [Lessing] may be said to have begun the revolt from
pseudo-classicism in poetry, and to have been thus
unconsciously the founder of romanticism. --Lowell.