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romanticism

Noun B2 – Upper-Intermediate

An artistic and intellectual movement that valued emotion, imagination and nature over reason and order.

"Wordsworth's poetry about the beauty of the countryside is a cornerstone of English romanticism."

It arose partly as a reaction against the strict rationalism of the Enlightenment that came before it.