1. Melissa, Josie, Corey

2.  Romanticism is a movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that marked the reaction in literature, philosophy, art, religion, and politics from the formal orthodoxy of the preceding period.  Individual freedom is important.  Most settings are in exotic locales or the supernatural.  Poetry is the highest expression of the imagination.

3.  Values the imagination over reality.  Educated sophistication is bad.  Youthful innocence is good.  Progress is bad.

4.  Values feeling and intuition over reason  Civilization is bad but Nature is good  Nature is the way to find God  Lots of inspiration from myths and legends

5.  The tranistion into this period was more based on nature and superstition