The Romantics: everything you wanted to know
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Was There Anything That the Romanticists Did Draw On?
You can't make a tidy distinction between romantic literature and that that comes before. Byron, for example, engaging with Pope. Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley constantly reading 18th century philosophy. Coleridge very influenced by the group of philosophers who are working in Jenna,. Schlego, Immanuel Kant. There's not neat national divisions, don't really hold up in quite the same way as now.
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