What are the characteristics of romantic literature?

Romantic literature came into being at the end of18th century and reached its peak in the first half of19th century. It is one of the most important ideological trends in modern western literature. Longitudinally, romantic literature is the inheritance and development of humanism in the Renaissance, and it is also a powerful refutation of rigid French classicism.

2. Horizontally, romantic literature and subsequent realism * * * constitute two systems of modern western literature, which created the prosperity of western literature in the19th century and had a far-reaching impact on later modernism and post-modernism literature.

3. The prevalence of romantic literary thoughts is the product of opposing classical literature. Therefore, in the history of western literary criticism, people often describe the relationship between them in the form of romantic opposition, so as to explain the reasons for the emergence of romantic literary thoughts and movements.

Extended data:

Romantic literature, with a literary spirit beyond reality, insists on the expression of life ideals and even fantasies, trying to show an ideal life scene to mankind with literature. In the words of Schiller, a German writer, Romanticism tried to replace the real lack with beautiful ideals.

Romanticism does not pay attention to the true description of life objects like realistic literature, emphasizing the authenticity and objectivity of literature, but tries its best to express ideals, subjective wishes and passion for ideals.

In literary creation, romanticism follows the principle of idealization. As long as it can express an ideal and hopeful life, it doesn't matter that the image created by literature violates the inherent logic of life itself.