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The original Romantics worshipped nature and feelings, not roses and overpriced dinner reservations.
means Relating to love and emotional intimacy, or — in its older sense — favoring feeling, imagination, and the sublime over cold reason.
from From Old French romanz, meaning a story told in the vernacular Roman tongue rather than scholarly Latin — and those stories were full of knights, quests, and passionate adventure. So 'romance' first meant a kind of tale, and 'romantic' meant tale-like: fanciful, heroic, larger than life. By the 18th and 19th centuries the Romantic movement seized the word for art that prized emotion and nature, and only later did it narrow to candlelit dinners and roses.
- Etymology
- From romance, meaning tales told in Roman vernacular tongues
- Movement
- 1800s artistic rebellion against cold industrial reason
- Brooding kings
- Byron, Shelley, Keats all died young and tragic
- Nature obsessed
- Mountains and storms moved them more than people
- Modern shift
- Word once meant imaginative, now means candlelit
titanic — 1912 ship disaster where first-class passenger jack dawson sketches rose dewitt bukater in her diamond necklace
romeo and juliet — shakespeare's 1594 tragedy of star-crossed lovers from feuding verona families
taj mahal — shah jahan built this 1653 mausoleum in agra, india for his deceased wife mumtaz mahal