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1. Romanticism was a Western cultural movement that began in the early 1800s as a reaction to the neoclassical love of reason and order that dominated the previous century. Romanticists were imaginative individuals who championed creativity and artistic freedom. The movement affected all forms of art, literature, and music in Europe, eventually spreading to the United States and other parts of the Western world.
2. Nature is a dominant theme in Romantic poetry, understood to represent the divine presence in the world and a source of beauty, innocence, and solace to humankind.
