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  2. Romantic literature - Wikipedia

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    Romantic literature was personal, intense, and portrayed more emotion than ever seen in neoclassical literature. America's preoccupation with freedom became a great source of motivation for Romantic writers as many were delighted in free expression and emotion without so much fear of ridicule and controversy.

  3. Romantic literature in English - Wikipedia

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    This included one of the creators of the new genre of the short story, and inventor of the detective story Edgar Allan Poe (1809–49). A major influence on American writers at this time was Romanticism. The Romantic movement gave rise to New England Transcendentalism, which portrayed a less restrictive relationship between God and Universe.

  4. Romanticism - Wikipedia

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    Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. The purpose of the movement was to advocate for the importance of subjectivity , imagination , and appreciation of nature in society and culture in response to the Age of ...

  5. Romantic poetry - Wikipedia

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    Romantic poetry is the poetry of the Romantic era, an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. It involved a reaction against prevailing Neoclassical ideas of the 18th century, [ 1 ] and lasted approximately from 1800 to 1850.

  6. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    A group of Romantic poets from the English Lake District who wrote about nature and the sublime [37] William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey: Pre-Raphaelites: Founded in 1848, primarily English movement based ostensibly on undoing innovations by the painter Raphael. Many were both painters and poets [38]

  7. Romance (prose fiction) - Wikipedia

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    The terms "romance novel" and "historical romance" are ambiguous, because the words "romance", and "romantic", can have different meanings: for example, romance can refer to either romantic love, or "the character or quality that makes something appeal strongly to the imagination, and sets it apart from ... everyday life" and is associated with ...

  8. List of romantics - Wikipedia

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    Gheorghe Asachi (poet, short story writer, playwright) Dimitrie Bolintineanu (poet) Cezar Bolliac (poet) George Coşbuc (poet) Dora d'Istria (essayist, travel writer) Mihai Eminescu (a Romantic for part of his career; poet, short story writer, essayist) Nicolae Filimon (novelist and short story writer) Ion Ghica (essayist and memoirist) Andrei ...

  9. Poetic diction - Wikipedia

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    Poetic diction is the term used to refer to the linguistic style, the vocabulary, and the metaphors used in the writing of poetry.In the Western tradition, all these elements were thought of as properly different in poetry and prose up to the time of the Romantic revolution, when William Wordsworth challenged the distinction in his Romantic manifesto, the Preface to the second (1800) edition ...