Neoclassical Period

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from 1798 until 1832, emphasized a number of ideas that were a reaction against the proceeding "Age of Reason". As Shelley stated, that the literature of the age “has arisen as it were from a new birth”. They concentrated on innovation rather than traditionalism in their material, forms and style of literature, and introduced symbolism. Wordsworth was one of the key poets in that age; his poetry was about his own feelings, spontaneous and genuine rather than a mirror of men in action, therefor concentrating on inner self and life but not society. In order to achieve that you have to be in solitude. They believed in the power of imagination vs. cold reasoning. They felt that both art and literature had become artificial, and that artists and writers should return to nature for inspiration. Emotions or feelings were the source of true moral guidance. They believed in individual liberty, and in people being true to themselves. And that the natural goodness in people could change ...

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