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How did the romantic movement contrast with the dominant way of thinking during the 18th and 19th centuries

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People in the 18th and 19th centuries were more scientifically minded and the romantics were more emotionally minded

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Answer:

The dominant thinking of people during the late 18th and early 19th centuries was philosophical whereas the romantic movement was marked with sense and emotions.

Explanation:

Romantic Movement sprouted in oppose to the Age of Enlightenment in England during the late 18th and early 19th century. The practitioners of romanticism gave value to sense and emotions. French poet, Charles Baudelaire stated, "Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject nor in exact truth, but in a way of feeling."

On the contrary, the Age of Enlightenment or simply known as Enlightenment was the age of reason and order. The people of this age were more philosophical. The practitioners of Romanticism celebrated the imagination and intuition of an individual.

Some practitioners of Romanticism were William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, P. B. Shelley, Walter Scott, Mary Shelley, etc.

Publication of the Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798, heralded the Romantic Movement.

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