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Many writers of he early 1800’s belonged to the artistic movement known as the Romanticism, or the Romantic Movement. The work of such artist show their themes as they thought it should be rather than as it actually was. The Romantic Movement was partly a reaction to the enlightenment. Romantics glorified emotion and instinct. Many romance writers glorified the past, especially the Middle Ages for it’s castles, ladies, and chivalries knights. For example, in Ivan Hoe, the Scottish novelist Sir Walter Scott wrote about the days of knighthood. The Grimm Brothers collected the famous fairy tales that bear their name. Beethoven brought to music some of the same