LITERATURE QUESTIONS
EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE
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friends of the romantics
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Relatives of the romantics
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Parents of the romantics
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Predecessors to the romantics
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Romantic movement in literature was preceded by the Enlightenment and succeeded by Realism.
Detailed explanation-2: -Other precursors of Romanticism are the poets James Thomson (1700–48) and James Macpherson (1736–96). The sentimental novel or “novel of sensibility” is a genre which developed during the second half of the 18th century. It celebrates the emotional and intellectual concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism and sensibility.
Detailed explanation-3: -The poets of the pre-romantics used a type of writing that expressed a more lyrical and personal experience of life. They did not form a school of thoughts, they were simple writers influenced by new trends and feelings. The fought against the neoclassical’s system of trends.
Detailed explanation-4: -These were Cowper, Crabbe, Blake and Burns.