What is the Relationship Between Modernism and Romanticism?
Notes towards an essay examining the relationship between Modernism and Romanticism in literature
In the same way that Romanticism was a reaction to Enlightenment, Modernism was a reaction to Romanticism. Modernism sought to move past the perceived ‘beauty’ of the romantics, and the ideal structuring of stories that were often neatly tied up with a bow at the end. But when something is working in reaction to the movement ahead of it there is o…
