What were the material causes of the rise of Romanticism?

Like many different literary movements, Romanticism was
brought on as an outcry against the preceding movement, The Age of Reason. typically,
movements arose because the new generation of writers did not agree with the
point-of-view which the preceding movement epitomized. Therefore, the Romantic period
was a movement brought about because of the dislike of
reason.

In The Age of Reason, individuals were told how to
interpret all ideas. The Age of Reason also seemed to be a type of instruction manual as
to how to live life and what to do to survive the Revolutionary War. (Remember the
experiment about breaking one stick and breaking a bundle of sticks? People during The
Age of Reason wanted bundles- not individuals.)

Therefore,
the Revolutionary War had great influence over the people of this generation (The Age of
Reason). That being said, the Romantic period was derived from an outcry of the new
artists who were tired of being told how to think and how to interpret life. Given that
the war had caused political and societal lives to fall apart, the Romantics wished to
offer a much different perspective on life; this new perspective offered individuality,
the support of emotion over reason, and highlighted the importance of the
imagination.