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Webster 1913 Edition
Romanticism
Ro-man′ti-cism
,Noun.
[CF. It.
romanticismo
, F. romantisme
, romanticisme
.] A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; – applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi[GREEK]val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style.
He [Lessing] may be said to have begun the revolt from pseudo-classicism in poetry, and to have been thus unconsciously the founder of
romanticism
. Lowell.