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Romanticism in Literature
Title: Romanticism in Literature
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 518 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Romanticism in Literature
Romanticism in literature, began around 1750 and lasted
until 1870. Different from the classical ways of Neoclassical
Age(1660-1798), it relied on imagination, idealization of nature
and freedom of thought and
expression.
Two men who influenced the era with their writings were
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, both English
poets of the time. Their edition of “Lyrical Ballads”, stressed the
importance of feeling and imagination. Thus in romantic
Literature the code was imagination over reason, emotion
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…showed last 75 words of 518 total…lose it’s glitter by the middle of
the nineteenth-century. Literature started to get serious again
focusing on issues such as problems of religion and faith and
politics of the English democracy. Now instead of journeying to
mythical places through the reading people wanted and writers
wrote about truth. Yet through the years literature of the English
Romantic Age will never even now be forgotten as it still impacts
some of our authors of today.
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