The Romantic Era: The Influence on British Literature

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paved the way for what one might view as a romanticist: a person with a creative mind and a great imagination that could be as good or completely pass that of an educated and sophisticated writer from recent years.
Other than the Germans or the English, there were many other contributors to the era of Romanticism like the Gothics. While Shakespeare was valued for his individualism that created the feelings of deep love in writing, the Gothics brought horror to Romanticism. The purpose of bringing in this emotion was to amaze its audience and it did just that. The common feeling is ‘sitting on the edge of your seat’.
Different groups of people may have brought their small contributions to Romanticism, but without the French Revolution, none of it would have been possible. The change that came from the revolution was a feeling of individualism and freedom. It showed people that if you were a noble or a poor farmer, you could do anything. “Before the French Revolution, writing ...

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changing literature.
To completely understand how much writing had change, one much compare the previous era to the newly adapted one. The previous era, the Enlightenment, was so focused on concrete evidence that there was no creativity or emotion found. “The Enlightenment focused more on reason and rationality as the voice of authority and used science and logic to explain nature. Romanticism, on the other hand, focused more on the individual as opposed to the state and emotion above reason” (Jackson-Arnautu 1). It was such a change and shock to most to experience a change such as this. Romanticism brought all the opposite of the Enlightenment such as creativity, imagination, love ...

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