Aestheticism in Literature - Definition and Examples

Aestheticism:

Aestheticism is a term applied to an English literary movement of the 2nd half of the 19th century. 

Aestheticism is reverence for beauty. For Example, "art for art's sake".

In Aestheticism, beautiful form is more to be valued than morally instructive content. In short, we can say that Beauty is more valued than morality. According to this term, morality is irrelevant to art in literature.

Examples of Aestheticism: 

"Beauty is truth, truth beauty"
       - Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats.