... , and the uncommon individual, the age of Realism values members of the middle class. While the age of the Romantics valued the contribution of the genius 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 the present moment as a way to ... must first be established. ...

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