... of a country. In short, the concept of tourism does not support the Romantics notion of experiencing self-discovery. Romanticism was a reactionary period of history which spread into poetry, artwork and literature. The typical romantic figure became the poet and Romantics began to turn away from the scientist and instead towards the poet. They believed that the orderly and systematic beliefs that ... science relied on was too narrow-minded and lacked feeling and emotional thought. German poet Goethe wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" which became known as the epitome of the Romantic ...

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