Mario Praz in his The Romantic Agony (1956) suggests that there is "no opposite pole to 'romantic'" which imlplies that romanticism could be understood as a set of ideals or a style that could emerge as a climax or a revolution, thus it is always in progression and could emerge at any time as a culmination of the intellectual process.
الرومانسية نمط تفكير ولا يمكن ربطها بسياق تاريخي محدد له بداية وله نهاية اللهم باستثناء التأريخ لازدهار هذا الفكر في مرحلة معينة وانتشاره (خاصة في فترة ثورته على التوجه الكلاسيكي) فهنا يمكننا دراسته كظاهرة سرعان ما فقدت زخمها لكنها لم تنقرض أو تندثر لأنه وفي وقتنا الحالي مازال الكثير من الأدباء والشعراء يعكسون التوجه
الرومانسي في كتابتهم بطريقة أو بأخرى
إضافة إلى هذا فالرومانسية التي ندرسها في سياق تاريخي أقدم من التاريخ الذي ضرب لها حقيقة لأنها تستمد أصولها من أفكار سابقة (الفلسفة المثالية على وجه الخصوص) لذلك فإن مسألة الضبط التاريخي والتقييد الزماني أمر فيه نظر نوعا ما.
Chouaib Merouani أميل إلى هذه التوجه أيضاً أن الرومانسية يمكن أن تكون ذروة أو ظاهرة تظهر في أوقات مختلفة ولكنها لا تندثر
A good question that requires an answer too complex for a statement such as mine. I think that basic "Romanticist" ideas and practices (they should be kept separate) evolved from the great democratic revolutions of 1776 and 1789, and also, in part, from the ideas of Rousseau who gave us ideas about the basic "goodness" of "Nature." These ideas persist, often sentimentalized, into the present day. They celebrate the pleasantries of benign natural landscapes and the individual self as a powerful self-expressive source. They counter religious Medievalism, even some of its Protestant variations, even as this Medievalism survives the revolutions, into present days. Romanticism also alleges "freedom of expression," even though its strongest representatives, Byron, Shelley, Keats and others, wrote traditional forms such as sonnets. So Romanticism and "neo-classical" formalisms are not incompatible. A dark underside of Romanticism is also present, in Gothic novels, for example, and in the pessimisms that evolve out of revolutionary disappointments. So Mario Praz gets it right: There is a "Romantic Agony" that results from the gap between idealism and actuality that is (also!) at the core of the Romantic movements.
I think it's important not to be enthralled by the textbook labels for historical eras--such as "Age of Reason," "Romanticism," "Modernism," etc. To do so is to subscribe to the great undifferentiated non-familiar. "Romantic" (and other) ideas persist into the twentieth century and beyond "Modernism" into "Postmodernism." In some cases Romantic-democratic ideas are taken to some extremes--free verse for example as a way to liberate the individual voice. I think many Modernist painters could be described as Romantics, and not just the landscape painters.
History, and the history of ideas and practices, is untidy and complex. It is also easy to stereotype. Is not Mary Shelley's Frankenstein doctor a Romantic howl against technology gone out of control? Look at where we are now, except for Researchgate.
Ciao,
Emilio DeGrazia
Winona, MN
USA
Romanticism is the greatest Movement ever happened in the history of literary movements.Poetry is the most influenced by it ,among other genres .
Coming across a few languages, I have heard of the romanticism in their literary movements at different milieux, those the people had access to the books as well as the literati of the other languages. This bursts the myth that Romanticism is a universal and simultaneous phenomenon. Put simply, literary movements crop up out of a boredom created by the long standing previous style and movement accepted by a majority. Romantic elements too have had their decadence and people began to appreciate even the absurd just as the romanticists embraced the supernatural. Said and done, romanticism had its enamouring charm on a vast majority of readers of within the gamut of youth and old age.
Yes, as a literary movement Romanticism does belong to a specific historical context that is highly recognized. But as a personal trait, romanticism exists in human beings throughout history.
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