Romanticism comes after the Enlightenment. In romanticism, the authors turn to nature, to feelings and to the real. Romanticism breaks with the correct and strict style of the Enlightenment. Who and what inspired the authors of the romance?

00:00 From the Enlightenment to Romanticism
02:35 Romanticism in Norway
04:19 Romanticism in Europe
05:50 Reality intrudes

In Romanticism, poetry is the dominant genre. Why? Because romanticism was about feelings and the individual's experience of the world, and poetry is the genre that can best depict that. Important authors in romanticism are Johan Wolfgang von Goethe, Hans Christian Andersen, Walter Scott, Asbjørnsen and Moe, Henrik Wergeland and Johan Sebastian Welhaven.

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Recorded in Bjergstedparken in Stavanger in May 2023
Cast: Grethe Mo
Production: Åsmund Ådnøy

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