Romanticism
Romanticism as an intellectual and artistic movement came into fashion during the late 19th century. It influenced many disciplines, including literature, art, music, and architecture. Romanticists in art and literature emphasized feelings and
emotions in reaction to the Enlightenment period, which relied solely on facts and rationality to reach truth. Romanticists
chose instead to investigate beauty, landscapes, and intuition to find truth. They also placed heavy emphasis on dreams, individualism, and self-expression as a way to communicate, and they worried less about rationality and objectivity. 

Cambridge, in June 1794, Coleridge became friends with poet Robert Southey, and the two concocted a plan to form an idealistic society, known as a pantisocracy, in Susquehanna Valley, Pennsylvania. In their utopian society everyone would live simple, virtuous lives, working together with the common ideals of justice and liberty. Their plan was in part a reaction to the political debates of the time. The events of the French Revolution (1789–99) had affected all of Europe, and intellectuals were questioning the best forms of government and seeking to do away with monarchical rule. In August, Coleridge and Southey left Cambridge and went to Bristol, where Coleridge worked as a public lecturer. To raise money for their move to America, Coleridge and Southey wrote a three-act play titled The Fall of Robespierre, which was based on real events of the French Revolution. Maximilien Robespierre, a major controversial political figure—loved, feared, and hated by many—who sided with the common people over the nobles and had a hand in the 1793 execution of the king of France, King Louis XVI, had been publicly beheaded in July 1794.