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On the Concept 1. The roots of the word ‘romantic’ lie in the Old French folk substantive romanz. The adjective was first transferred, in 1680 at the latest, to England, with the ambivalent signification (still retained today) of a sublimation (of some reality) with an orientation to interiority. Further: ‘Romanticism’ in the stricter sense identifies the era, almost entirely German, in the history of culture, between classicism or the Enlightenment and early industrialization—an era dated c. 1786/98 to 1815/35.…