... and imagination of the writer/poet, the Realists wanted to de-emphasize the contribution of the writer and thought writers should "objectively" see contemporary life as the material for their writing. They attempted to keep themselves as writers from coming between the reader and the life they presented in their art. Also, the age of the Romantics valued the details of ... meant "having existed from the first" came to mean "underived, independent, first-hand" and by time the word was used a term of praise meaning "novel or fresh in character or style". It cannot be claimed that the use ...

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