LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Question
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Who used the words “romanticism” and “romantic” first?
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Wordsworth
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Coleridge
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Carlyle
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Schlegel
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The term Romanticism was first used in Germany in the late 1700s when the critics August and Friedrich Schlegal wrote of romantische Poesie ("romantic poetry").
Detailed explanation-2: -First is Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who is often considered the father of Romanticism.
Detailed explanation-3: -William Wordsworth. William Blake. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Percy Bysshe Shelley. John Keats. Lord Byron. Jane Austen. Mary Shelley. More items
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