Was the Romanticism movement a thing of poor quality

[Mr.lucifer]

I was wondering since realism was a reaction to romanticism and the romanticism movement was criticized for sentimentality, does that make it a movement of poor quality?

[Alexander III]

Quite the opposite, romanticism as a movement produced some of the greatest works of art we have from literature to painting to music.

Which of the romantics have you read ?

[kelby_lake]

I was wondering since realism was a reaction to romanticism and the romanticism movement was criticized for sentimentality, does that make it a movement of poor quality?

No. Why would you think that? There's backlashes to every movement. New Romanticism was a backlash to punk but punk was still an influence on it. The whole point of romanticism is 'sentimentality'.

[Lokasenna]

No. Why would you think that? There's backlashes to every movement. New Romanticism was a backlash to punk but punk was still an influence on it. The whole point of romanticism is 'sentimentality'.

Agreed. There are very few people who will dismiss the Romantic movement out of hand. I can't really speak for paintings, as I don't know enough, but in terms of literature and music it was a period of seminal importance.

Have a read of some Keats or Wordsworth, or listen to some of the music of Chopin or Liszt, and decide for yourself.

[Jeremydav]

Romanticism provided us with some very skilled poets, and was anything but poor quality. Though, the criticisms are of course valid; there are criticisms of any movement, though.

[JBI]

Are we saying English Romanticism, or Romanticism in general? I think American Romanticism rather weak personally, but I bet that is an idiosyncratic evaluation.

[Jeremydav]

American Romanticism brought such works as Moby Dick and The Scarlet Letter. We were all forced to read them in school, yes, but they were rather enjoyable I thought.

[stlukesguild]

I think American Romanticism rather weak personally, but I bet that is an idiosyncratic evaluation.

Canadian Romanticism, on the other hand, produced endless geniuses in art, music, and literature.:ciappa:

There are very few people who will dismiss the Romantic movement out of hand. I can't really speak for paintings, as I don't know enough...

Goya, Delacroix, Caspar David Friedrich, William Blake (he painted too), Ingres, Théodore Géricault, J.M.W. Turner, Thomas Cole, Samuel Palmer, John Constable, Henry Fuseli, Frederic E. Church, Albert Bierstadt, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, etc... Not a bad period in art either.

[JCamilo]

Romantics just killed themselves in the end with tuberculosis... that is rather a poor quality death...

[Evaril]

Gosh, I love sentimental. If I want to know about the plain, I'd rather talk to people.

[The Comedian]

I love the Romantic movement -- even the ramshackle American stuff: Whitman, Dickinson, Thoreau is highly tolerable.

[Lokasenna]

Romantics just killed themselves in the end with tuberculosis... that is rather a poor quality death...

It was a tremendously Romantic thing to die young and tragically... Keats, Shelley, Chopin, Shubert... it all adds to the appeal, you know!

That said, I don't think they actually purposefully contracted TB or anything similar... even Shelley's 'suicide' was more likely an accident.

[Emil Miller]

It was a tremendously Romantic thing to die young and tragically... Keats, Shelley, Chopin, Shubert... it all adds to the appeal, you know!

That said, I don't think they actually purposefully contracted TB or anything similar... even Shelley's 'suicide' was more likely an accident.

Today I listened to a programme about the death of Schubert given on BBC Radio 4. The evidence for the cause of his death clearly shows that he may well have died of causes other than syphilis, as is generally accepted .

[OrphanPip]

Liszt probably had the least Romantic death, old man, pneumonia. So, boring.

[LitNetIsGreat]

I'd like to book myself in for a Worthworthian life and death - you can keep your sexy early deaths. Died at 80, having lived his life in beautiful surroundings, going for walks and writing poetry. Got to be better than teaching!

[.Kafka]

I wonder how a movement can be criticized so for sentiments. Literary movements are aggravated by philosophical treatises.