... in France and Germany as people began to leave the classical style of writing. The ideas put into romanticism came from two well-known people, a French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau and a Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. There were four points that authors during romanticism focused on libertarianism, nature, and the supernatural. Libertarianism involved an emphasis on the dignity and rights of ... an individual. These new revolutions went into many political documents written during this time period. The aspect of nature was also new to this time period. Authors began to bring nature an...

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... Coleridge and Wordsworth excelled in poetry that dealt with themes including morality, mortality, and creativity. German romantics wrote a great deal of poetry, but almost all of the significant German romantic authors also wrote at least one novel. Goethe was the greatest German writer of the era, though he was a more complicated figure than the label "romantic" suggests. Faust was his seminal ... work. Romanticism in religion stressed the individual's heartfelt response to the divine. Methodism developed in England in the middle of the 18th century as a reaction against deism and ratio...

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