Many writers of he early 1800's belonged to the artistic movement known as the Romanticism, or the Romantic Movement. ... Beethoven brought to music some of the same aims that the British poets of his time brought to literature. ... Art and literature that represents events and social conditions as they actually are without idealization involved is called realism. ... The Russian, Leo Tolstoy in his monumental novel War and Peace showed war not as a romantic adventure but as a vast confusion of misery and death The subject mater of much romantic literature and art had little to do ...

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