Introduzione al Romanticismo (i temi)

What are the themes we can find in the different souls of European Romanticism? We have studied it in Italian, English, German, and French literature, in philosophy, and in music: we try to find the commonalities between the different national versions. From the centrality of individual sentiment, to the relationship with nature, to the poetics of the sublime, to the theme of travel, exoticism, the artist as creative genius, to the recovery of the Middle Ages... 00:00 The dates 00:59 The restoration and the formation of nation states 01:50 The revival of the Middle Ages (and national history) 02:39 Sentiment vs. Reason 03:15 The journey (distance, exoticism, inner journey) 04:47 Nature (picturesque and sublime - infinite)