Editing Romanticism (section)

===Period===
The period typically called Romantic varies greatly between different countries and different artistic media or areas of thought. [[Margaret Drabble]] described it in literature as taking place "roughly between 1770 and 1848",<ref>in her ''Oxford Companion'' article, quoted by Day, 1</ref> and few dates much earlier than 1770 will be found. In English literature, [[M. H. Abrams]] placed it between 1789, or 1798, this latter a very typical view, and about 1830, perhaps a little later than some other critics.<ref>Day, 1–5</ref> Others have proposed 1780–1830.<ref>{{Cite book|title = British Literature 1780–1830|last1 = Mellor|first1 = Anne|publisher = Harcourt Brace & Co./Wadsworth|year = 1996|isbn = 978-1-4130-2253-7|location = NY|last2 = Matlak|first2 = Richard}}</ref> In other fields and other countries the period denominated as Romantic can be considerably different; [[Romantic music|musical Romanticism]], for example, is generally regarded as only having ceased as a major artistic force as late as 1910, but in an extreme extension the ''[[Four Last Songs]]'' of [[Richard Strauss]] are described stylistically as "Late Romantic" and were composed in 1946–1948.<ref>Edward F. Kravitt, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=WpR6Ja9eQzYC&dq=%22Four+Last+Songs%22+%22Late+Romantic%22&pg=PA47 The Lied: Mirror of Late Romanticism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221204111545/https://books.google.com/books?id=WpR6Ja9eQzYC&pg=PA47&dq=%22Four+Last+Songs%22+%22Late+Romantic%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FC92T8K_JIWA8gPP3JCeDQ&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Four%20Last%20Songs%22%20%22Late%20Romantic%22&f=false |date=2022-12-04 }}'' (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996): 47. {{ISBN|0-300-06365-2}}.</ref> However, in most fields the Romantic period is said to be over by about 1850, or earlier.

The early period of the Romantic era was a time of war, with the French Revolution (1789–1799) followed by the [[Napoleonic Wars]] until 1815. These wars, along with the political and social turmoil that went along with them, served as the background for Romanticism.<ref name="ReferenceA">Greenblatt et al., ''Norton Anthology of English Literature'', eighth edition, "The Romantic Period – Volume D" (New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 2006): {{Page needed|date=January 2016}}</ref> The key generation of French Romantics born between 1795 and 1805 had, in the words of one of their number, [[Alfred de Vigny]], been "conceived between battles, attended school to the rolling of drums".<ref>Johnson, 147, inc. quotation</ref> According to [[Jacques Barzun]], there were three generations of Romantic artists. The first emerged in the 1790s and 1800s, the second in the 1820s, and the third later in the century.<ref>Barzun, 469</ref>