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Wednesday, 26 April 2017

Romantic age (1798-1824)

Romantic age (1798-1824)
1- It was a revolt against classical school of thought.
2- Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley & Keats belong to this period.
3- Romanticism started with the publication of "lyrical ballads" in 1798, a book on the nature and scope of poetry by Wordsworth.
4- Unlike classicism simplicity of style & diction became the order of the day.
5- they started to depend on poetic imagination instead of fancy.
*they used common language in poetry- a language used by rustics.
* they disliked artificial way of town life, talked about common and rustic people. 
Rustic means rural or resembling country people.

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