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Movement toward Romanticism Social Background: With Pope and then Johnson at the helm, the 18th century raged forward with the heroic couplet and almost outlawed all other forms. However, from the very outset, some dissenting voices existed and tried to make them heard. Although open rebellion did not become a major trend until the death of Johnson in 1784, something the nature of which Johnson did not approve had begun to surface. The stage was well set for a new generation of poets, the Romantics. Representatives of Pre-Romanticism: James Thomson (1700-1748), Edward Young (1683-1765), Willia