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The writers included in this volume are classed as romantics because they flourished at a particular time rather than because of what they wrote. Some of the writers, indeed, were apparently untouched by the general characteristics of the romantic movement. John O’Keefe, for example, is a dramatist who belongs in spirit to the 18th century; Samuel Rogers, who lived on into mid-Victorian times, continued to write mainly in a neo-classical idiom; neither Frere nor Praed could be described justly as a romantic poet; and Landor, although he displayed some romantic tendencies, liked to think of his work as “classical” in style and content.
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Muir, K. (1980). Introduction. In: The Romantic Period. Great Writers Student Library. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16420-2_1
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