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Western Literature
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In direct reaction to the Enlightenment's strictures, Romanticism elevated emotion, the sublime, power of untamed nature, and the solitary genius. This movement shifted the locus of literary authority from the public sphere to the isolated, often melancholic, individual consciousness.
Poets explored intense states of feeling, often f…