AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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Maria Edgeworth
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Sir Walter Scott
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Thomas De Quincey
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Jane Austen
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Detailed explanation-1: -The sonnet was a popular form of poetry during the Romantic period: William Wordsworth wrote 523, John Keats 67, Samuel Taylor Coleridge 48, and Percy Bysshe Shelley 18.
Detailed explanation-2: -Chronologically, Jane Austen belongs in a category with the literary Romantics. She wrote in a period described as experiencing the ‘rise of print culture’ and the ‘rise of the novel’. Yet, for many years, she was seen as out of place in English Romanticism.
Detailed explanation-3: -Wordsworth is best known for Lyrical Ballads, co-written with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and The Prelude, a Romantic epic poem chronicling the “growth of a poet’s mind.”
Detailed explanation-4: -Romantic Age Novelists and their Novels are characterized by escapist urge off realism, imagination and glorification of nature. Austen, Edgeworth & Scott were the leading face of the fictional prose work. And, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Talisman, The absentee were popular novels of the time.