Romanticism was encouraging the estimation of folk poetry and tradition which created the so called national literacy and art. These ideas inspired Sturm and Drang and to the end of the 18th century the new political, patriotic movement of Romanticism (which later developed in an aesthetic and artistic one) had appeared.
Giving a new meaning to the significance of 'culture', Herder connected the unique cultural temperament or identity of a population (Kulturcharacter), with the location that he lives, the geographical and climate circumstances. He believed that language and literacy express the peculiar population spirit (Volksgeist) and declared that only the cultivation of mother language can permit population to escape from barbarity status. Herder had promoted the importance and the beauty of the German folk tradition, the Celtic and medieval gothic art, which had been stigmatized as primitive and brutal, comparing with fine and noble French art. This movement adopted the radical ideas of Johan Gottfried Herder (1744-1803). von Goethe - made a movement called Sturm und Drang (Storm and Urge).
In decade of 1770 some young German writers -among them J.W.
