2.1 Origins of Romanticism r The tone of Romanticism was shaped by the emotionalism of Rousseau, and the exotic legends and mythology found in Oriental and homeric literatures and 17th-cent travel writers 2021/2/232021/2/23 7 2.1 Origins of Romanticism The tone of Romanticism was shaped by the emotionalism of Rousseau, and the exotic legends and mythology found in Oriental and Homeric literatures and 17th-cent. travel writers