Marta Zapała-Kraj 
Romanticism and Romantics. A Brief Introduction [PDF ebook] 

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics for the subject English — Literature, Works, , language: English, abstract: The essential elements of the romantic spirit were curiosity and the love – the one of beauty and the more ‘natural’, down-to-earth form – passion and eroticism; and it is only as an illustration of these qualities, that it looked for in the Middle Age, because, in the overcharged atmosphere of the Middle Age, there are unworked sources of romantic effect, of a strange beauty, to be won, by strong imagination, out of things unlikely or remote.