... generally taken to extend from the outbreak of the French Revolution (1789), through the first three decades of the Nineteenth Century. Romantic literature departed from the traditional materials, form and style of preceding Neo-Classic literature, embracing innovation in these areas. Instead of the serious genres, high subjects, and elevated style and decorum of the Neo-Classic period, Romanticism heralded an ... era of social, political and literary revolution, new beginnings and "high possibilities". Blake and Wordsworth, were (roughly) contemporaries ... accessible to and relevant f...

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