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Sentimentalism and Pre-romanticism Sentimentalism is one of the important trends in English literature of the middle and later decades of the 18th century. ????? Along with a new vision of love, sentimentalism presented a new view of human nature which prized feeling over thinking, passion over reason, and personal instincts of pity, tenderness, and benevolence over social duties. ????? Literary work of the sentimentalism, marked by a sincere sympathy for the poverty-stricken, expropriated peasants, wrote the simple annals of the poor”. ? Writers of sentimentalism justly criticize