Romanticism - the desire for natural, motivated by a desire to break with the romantic standards, regulations classicism, which sharply distinguishes between high and low styles, tragic and comic. Conventional classical norms of romance set against "truth of life", but should represent the maximum expressiveness and "extravagance." The essential features of a romantic disposition manifested in ethics rebellious individual, ironic self-esteem, denial diet philosophy, creating new concepts of nationality and historicism. In the center of romantic art to be a person, a thirst to understand the laws of society and change it. Ideal romantic personality becomes freedom, or even it leads to death. Typical examples of stylistic set. Become grotesque and ironic. The romantics were different philosophical and political beliefs and aesthetic tastes. Features romantic art is a predominance of subjective lyrical beginning and images of spiritual experiences of the individual. Romantic poetry - is primarily poetry mood. Innovation romanticism is in controversy with Fundamental ideas clearance. aesthetics. Romance defended freedom of the poet in the original artistic imagery to express their thoughts and feelings. Recognized as the leader of European Romanticism was Byron. Contradiction of time gave rise to a paradox, a position of Byron.
The main motive of his time, the motive disappointment Byron expressed in the form of a mysterious, steeped in melancholy hero, known as the Byronic. Heisei Byron did not end with his death.
Democratic ideas of late romanticism, found expression in the works of Heine. Hoffman held a special place. The writer refuses to many illusions properties romanticism.