1. romanticism - Noun
2. Romanticism - Proper noun
A fondness for romantic characteristics or peculiarities; specifically, in modern literature, an aiming at romantic effects; -- applied to the productions of a school of writers who sought to revive certain medi/val forms and methods in opposition to the so-called classical style.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. Charles Bukowski
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. Charles Baudelaire
Reduced to a miserable mass level, the level of a Hitler, German Romanticism broke out into hysterical barbarism. Thomas Mann
Could it be that sexual perversion and romanticism sprang from the same longing for distant horizons? Colin Wilson
High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. Camille Paglia
The modern clercs have created in so-called cultivated society a positive romanticism of harshness. The have also created a romanticism of contempt. Julien Benda