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The six best-known English male authors are, [citation needed] in order of birth and with an example of their work: William Blake – The Marriage of Heaven and Hell; William Wordsworth – The Prelude; Samuel Taylor Coleridge – The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; George Gordon, Lord Byron – Don Juan, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage"
Mihai Eminescu (a Romantic for part of his career; poet, short story writer, essayist) Nicolae Filimon (novelist and short story writer) Ion Ghica (essayist and memoirist) Andrei Mureşanu (poet) Costache Negruzzi (short story writer) Alexandru Odobescu (short story writer) Bogdan Petriceicu-Hasdeu (historian and playwright)
In 2008, romantic fiction generated $1.37 billion in sales, with 7,311 romance novels published and making up 13.5% of the consumer book market. Over 74 million people claimed to have read at least one romance novel in 2008, according to a Romance Writers of America study.
Romantic literature was personal, intense, and portrayed more emotion than ever seen in neoclassical literature. America's preoccupation with freedom became a great source of motivation for Romantic writers as many were delighted in free expression and emotion without so much fear of ridicule and controversy.
William Wordsworth (pictured) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature in 1798 with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. In English literature, the key figures of the Romantic movement are considered to be the group of poets including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the much older ...
The most notable Spanish authors are: Enrique Gil y Carrasco 1815–1846, the author of El señor de Bembibre, the best Spanish historical novel, written in imitation of Scott; Francisco Navarro Villoslada (1818–1895), who wrote a series of historical novels when the romantic genre was in decline and Realism was coming to be at its height ...
The Romantic movement in English literature of the early 19th century has its roots in 18th-century poetry, the Gothic novel and the novel of sensibility. [6] [7] This includes the pre-Romantic graveyard poets from the 1740s, whose works are characterized by gloomy meditations on mortality, "skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms". [8]
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