# The Romantic Revolution

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- Book: [The Romantic Revolution](https://www.bookquiver.com/t-c-w-blanning/the-romantic-revolution) ([The Romantic Revolution.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/t-c-w-blanning/the-romantic-revolution.md))
- Authors: [T. C. W. Blanning](https://www.bookquiver.com/t-c-w-blanning)
- Publisher: w_n
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-17-8022-567-8
- Published: 2012-12-20
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

A compelling and persuasive account of how the Romantic Movement permanently changed the way we see things and express ourselves. Three great revolutions rocked the world around 1800. The first two - the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution - have inspired the greatest volume of literature. But the third - the romantic revolution - was perhaps the most fundamental and far-reaching. From Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Burns, to Beethoven, Wagner, Berlioz, Rossini and Liszt, to Goya, Turner, Delacroix and Blake, the romantics brought about nothing less than a revolution when they tore up the artistic rule book of the old regime. This was the period in which art acquired its modern meaning; for the first time the creator, rather than the created, took centre-stage. Artists became the high priests of a new religion, and as the concert hall and gallery came to take the place of the church, the public found a new subject worthy of veneration in paintings, poetry and music. Tim Blanning's sparkling, wide-ranging survey traces the roots and evolution of a cultural revolution whose reverberations continue to be felt today.