... felt throughout society, Romanticism was more widespread both in its origins and influence. No other intellectual and/or artistic movement has had comparable variety, reach, and staying power since the end of the Middle Ages. Romanticism was an attitude or intellectual orientation that characterized many works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in Western civilization over a period from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Among the characteristic attitudes of Romanticism were the following a deepened appreciation of the beauties of nature, a general exaltation of emotion over reason and of the senses over intellect and a turning in upon the self and a heightened examination of human personality and its moods and mental potentialities. Arguably, some other characteristics were a preoccupation with "the genius, the hero, and the exceptional figure in general, and a focus on his passions and inner struggles", a new view of the artist ...

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