Why was the romantic period call Romantics?

For a fuller description of the Romantic Era, see Romanticism Also, see Romance and scroll down to the Etymological Tree near the bottom of that entry, to explore the history and various connotations of the word. read more

As a term to cover the most distinctive writers who flourished in the last years of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th, “Romantic” is indispensable but also a little misleading: there was no self-styled “Romantic movement” at the time, and the great writers of the period did not call themselves Romantics. read more

The romantic period is a term applied to the literature of approximately the first third of the nineteenth century. During this time, literature began to move in channels that were not entirely new but were in strong contrast to the standard literary practice of the eighteenth century. read more