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* Romanticism Romanticism?(the Romantic Movement),?a literary movement, and profound shift in sensibility, which took place in?Britain and throughout Europe 1770-1848.Intellectually?it marked a violent reaction to the Enlightenment.?Politically?it was inspired by the revolutions in?America and France and popular wars of independence in Poland, Spain, Greece, and elsewhere.?Emotionally?it expressed an extreme assertion of the self and the value of individual experience (the egotistical sublime), together with the sense of the infinite and transcendental.?Socially?it championed progressive causes, though when these were frustrated it often produced a bitter, gloomy, and despairing outlook. As an age of romantic enthusiasm, The Romantic Age?began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor published?Lyrical Ballads,? and ended in 1832 when Walter Scott (1771-1832) died.? At the beginning the literature reflected the political turmoil of the age stirred by French Revolution. The glory of the age is notably seen in the?Poetry?of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats, who were grouped into two generations:?Passive Romantic poets?represented by the?Lakers / Lake Poets?—?Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns, and Blake though introspective 18th-cent., who?reflected those classes which had been ruined by the bourgeoisie, but later grew conservative and turned to the feudal past and idealized the life of the Middle Ages to protest against capitalist development; and?Active / Revolutionary Romantic poets?represented by those younger poets — Byron, Shelley and Keats, firm supporters of French Revolution, who expressed the aspiration of the labouring classes and set themselves against the bourgeois society and the ruling class, as they bore a deep hatred for the wicked exploiters and oppressors and had an intensive love for liberty. Women?novelists appeared in this period and assumed for the first time an important place in English literature.? Mrs Ann Radcliffe (17