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and literature. Prior to the Romantic period the Classical period imposed very strict, and perhaps logical, rules to artistic endeavors. But, with the Romantic period things changed and the focus
turned to emotions and expression rather than rules. It was also a time of great political turmoil and change as well for people were looking to their emotions and forms
of expression that were not rigidly controlled any longer. The following paper provides a report/overview of a book which covers this time period. The book is "The Romantic Movement" by
Maurice Cranston. "The Romantic Movement" by Maurice Cranston Cranstons book is divided up into several sections which examine the movement throughout much of Europe. The Romantic Movement was
not a movement that just concerned or involved say Italy, or Germany, but a movement that affected all of Europe, eventually. In the first section, "The First Romantics," Cranston illustrates
how "the Romanticism of the Romantic Movement is a product of modernity; it begins in the eighteenth-century of Reason, and is in part a reaction against that Age" (Cranston, 1994;
1). The first romantic, according to Cranston and others, was Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The second section of the book concerns "German Romanticism" wherein Cranston (1994) states that, "Romanticism is often
said to have been a reaction against classicism. In Germany it was a reaction rather against rationalism, emerging together with a new kind of classicism in the glorious flowering of
literature that took place in the eighteenth-century" (21). Interesting enough, bearing in mind that Rousseau is considered something of the father of Romanticism, it was in Germany that he had
his most supportive readers: "The Germans of Rousseaus time were living between two worlds; they had left the feudal past, but they had not been propelled into modernity, like the
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