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The word ' romantic seems first to have come into use in England about the middle of the seventeenth century , when it meant ' having the wild or exciting qualities of mediaeval romances ' . In the eighteenth century it might be used as ...
The word ' romantic seems first to have come into use in England about the middle of the seventeenth century , when it meant ' having the wild or exciting qualities of mediaeval romances ' . In the eighteenth century it might be used as ...
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In England the conflict between the romantic and the classical was less marked , because the fundamentals of classical thought had been eroded more thoroughly by the empiricism of the eighteenth century .
In England the conflict between the romantic and the classical was less marked , because the fundamentals of classical thought had been eroded more thoroughly by the empiricism of the eighteenth century .
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Cowper was not a Romantic ; the passionate turmoils of the Romantic poets still lay ahead when he wrote The Task ; but in his deeply personal writing , his preference for feeling over knowledge , his love of the country life ...
Cowper was not a Romantic ; the passionate turmoils of the Romantic poets still lay ahead when he wrote The Task ; but in his deeply personal writing , his preference for feeling over knowledge , his love of the country life ...
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Contents
Acknowledgements | 6 |
List of Illustrations | 7 |
The Age of Romanticism | 9 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Romanticism and the Social Order 1780-1830 Blandford history series Blandford history series: History and literature History and literature |
| Author | Ronald Walter Harris |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Blandford, 1969 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Feb 2008 |
| ISBN | 0713736046, 9780713736045 |
| Length | 426 pages |
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