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Monster Essays - 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
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
over logic, and finally intuition over science. All of these new
ways discouraged and didn’t tole....
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