Some general characteristics:

1. Emphasis on supremacy of the individual (Wordsworth - Emerson). Idealizes the individual.

2. Distrustful of society.

3. The imaginative and emotional more significant than the rational.

4. Romantic vision looks toward the future; change is good.

5. The ordered past is not an acceptable pattern.

6. Fascinated with the extra-ordinary and the irregular (Gothicism, Medievalism, remote areas, unusual people.

7. Celebrates the irregular; praises action.

8. Sees revolutions as liberating.

9. Sees human nature as fundamentally good unless corrupted by society.

Some general characteristics:

1. Emphasis on man's position within an ordered society; individual representative of his class.

2. Society is a guiding structure.

3. Intellect and reason control passions and emotions.

4. Distrustful of quick change.

5. Accepts classical models as useful guides, even as absolutes.

6. Distrustful of irregular. Order a better guide.

7. Praises stability and order.

8. Sees revolutions as destructive of a useful order.

9. Sees human nature as fudamentally evil unless controlled by society.