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Explain the role of Romanticism in national feeling.

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  • Romanticism was a cultural movement that played a huge role in the development of nationalist sentiment.
  • Romantic artists and poets criticised reason and science and eulogized emotions, intuition and mystical feelings.
  • They wanted to create a sense of a shared collective heritage and a common cultural past, paving way for nationalist feelings.
  • The spirit of the nation (volksgeist) was popularized through folk songs, folk poetry and folk dances



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