The Romantic period is a period that originated in Europe in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The Romantic periods peak years was between the 1800s’ and the 1850s.
“Romanticism, typically defined by its opposition to classicism, favors the imagination, feelings, and intuition.” (“Romanticism”) . “ For the Romantic writer, the individual soul or imagination was paramount; at times, the heroic aspect was illustrated by a character’s stand against a community that censured the individual…” (“Romanticism”) . “Abolitionism and woman’s rights movement grew out of the Romantic spirit of reform.”(“Romanticism”) . Transcendentalism offered secular proposition that an individual can handle universal truths. In America, Roman became connected to ideas about a utopian society…”(“Romanticism”) . “Romanticism is both a general term for literature of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and a specific term for an artistic movement in literature, music, and art.”(Kruger, Christine, ed “Romanticism”) . “William Wordsworth, Samual Taylor Coleridge, and William Blake constitute the first
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His employer, Joseph Johnson was involved in establishing London’s first Unitarian Chapel in London. In which it also influenced Blakes’ religious views. In 1784 Blake opened a print shop with James Parker, in which the shop was unsuccessful. He later went back to work with Joesph Johnson. Who introduced him to the radical circle, in which consisted of Molly Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Joseph Priestley, and Thomas Paine. After that he began to experiment with a new method of engraving, in which his dying brother told him about. His first illuminated works called Natural Religion was published in 1788. The new method of engraving consisted of drawing on copper plates with a impervious liquid, then the plate was dipped in acid. So the text and pictured remained and the final copy would be hand