section_path: Criticisms/Opposition from Romanticism
section_name: Opposition from Romanticism
paragraph_text: Opposition from Romanticism
  
  During the Industrial Revolution, an intellectual and artistic hostility towards the new industrialisation developed, associated with the Romantic movement. Romanticism revered the traditionalism of rural life and recoiled against the upheavals caused by industrialisation, urbanisation and the wretchedness of the working classes. Its major exponents in English included the artist and poet William Blake and poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.
  
  The movement stressed the importance of "nature" in art and language, in contrast to "monstrous" machines and factories; the "Dark satanic mills" of Blake's poem " And did those feet in ancient time ". Mary Shelley 's Frankenstein reflected concerns that scientific progress might be two-edged. French Romanticism likewise was highly critical of industry.