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Washington Irving - Characteristic of a Romantic Era
Title: Washington Irving - Characteristic of a Romantic Era
Category: Society & Culture / People
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Washington Irving - Characteristic of a Romantic Era
Washington Irving-
Characteristic of the Romantic Era
Romanticism is a literary and artistic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that placed value on emotion or imagination over reason, on the imagination over society. Some sources say Romanticism started in reaction to neo-classicism, or the Enlightenment. The most important result of romanticism was the emphasis laid upon the supernatural. Some writers during this time period were Mary Shelley with Frankenstein, Edgar Allen Poe with various …showed first 75 words of 630 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 630 total…interrupted by the sudden death of Matilda Hoffman, Ogden Hoffman's daughter. It caused him much grief, but after a while, he learned how to live with it. For some years after the success of his book, his life seemed to him more or less aimless. During these years he turned to variety of pursuits. He primed an American edition of Thomas Campbell's poems, edited the Analectic Magazine and acquired a colonelship during the war of 1812.
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