Romance
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The words Romance and romantic usually mean:
- something to do with love: “A dinner for two by candle-light by the side of a lake sounds very romantic.”
- ”The word “romantic” (with a lower-case r) is often used to describe an unreal or sentimental feeling of love: “He has a romantic imagination”.
- ”Romance” or “romantic” is often used to describe stories from the Middle Ages about love. Very often these stories are about love adventures of knights, or about the love of a poor man for a rich lady whom he could never hope to marry.
- ”Romantic” or “Romanticism” (with a capital R) is used to describe the period of 19th century arts. “Arts” in this sense means literature, painting, sculpture, music etc. In this way we contrast the “Arts” with “Science”.
The Romantics were trying to do something different from the artists of the Classical Period in the 18th century.
- The article Romantic music is about European music in the 19th century.
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