Romanticism,
- a cultural movement which sought to develop a particular form of nationalist sentiment
- criticized the glorification of reason and science
- focused instead on emotions, intuition and mystical feelings
- effort was to create a sense of a shared collective heritage, a common cultural past, as the basis of a nation.
- culture was to be discovered among the common people
- through folk songs, folk poetry and folk dances that the true spirit of the nation.
- In India
- Aurobindo, through his poetry and philosophical treatise, ‘The Life Divine’, the prospect of the ultimate revelation of divinity in everything.
- Tagore’s quest for beauty was a spiritual quest, which attained fruition in the final realization that service to humanity was the best form of contact with God
- unknown mystique, is beautiful because it shines through the known; and it is only in the unknown that we have perpetual freedom
- novels, short stories, essays and dramas
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