Appeared during the 18th century, romanticism is an artistic movement which developed in reaction to classicism judged too rigid and philosophical rationalism of a world more and more disenchanted.
Aiming at exploration of all possibilities of art, it generally characterizes by the expression of feelings, ecstasies and disturbances of the soul, exaltation of mystery and fantastic, evasion and enchanting in morbid and sublime.
After showing a panorama of many German, English and French romantic authors which made its fame, Robert Delafolie comes back on the stakes of this movement including destiny of nature and man: emergence of a new vision of the world with a struggle and traditional order background and new whole reintegration of creation in the great All.
Man, privileged in natural order, has to be the intermediary between God and creation, waiting for liberation.
It "(...) is here to accomplish a mission, says the author, its reintegration in the divine order which allows to light human order.".
