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The Romantic Movement in England, traditionally spanning from the publication of The Preface to Lyrical Ballads in 1789 to the death of Sir Walter Scott in 1832, although heterogeneous and diverse, typically reacted to the Enlightenment’s emphasis on emotional restraint, reason, and decorum. Born out of 18^th-Century landscape painting and infused with the Idealist philosophies of Schlegel and Kant, Romanticism promoted the wildness or sublimity of nature as opposed to the narrow conception of beauty favoured by Neoclassicism. In sympathy with the American and French Revolutions but critical of the ravages of the Industrial Revolution, Romanticism was politically, religiously, and aesthetically radical. Romantic writers chose subjects from everyday life, describing them not in the polished literary language of the 18^th Century, but in the vernacular spoken by the common man or woman. Romantic writers sought to represent and give a voice to those disadvantaged, marginalized, or oppressed by an increasingly urban and utilitarian English culture. They also testified to the importance of the individual in an ever more faceless modernity by foregrounding the poet’s own subjectivity and imagination at its most idiosyncratic or experimental, often through the poetic exploration of alternative states of mind.

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