English Literature / Unit 12 ENL 1148 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Common Errors About Romanticism
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The idea
Four common errors cost points. Romantic does not mean about love. The movement prized imagination but did not reject thought; Coleridge was a philosopher. "Spontaneous overflow" omits "recollected in tranquillity." And the Romantics wrote of cities and politics as well as nature.
In practice
Four misreadings, corrected.
Where people slip
Romanticism has politics.
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