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Romanticism was a break away from previous ideas that had developed through the Enlightenment period of the early/mid 18th century. While Enlightenment ideals focussed on reason and individualism and a more pragmatic study of God and the heavens, Romanticism tended towards more emotional and personal ideas, often based around love or nature.

Before Romanticism, writing was often very structured and, while this new era also had a reasonably structured status quo of literature and thought, it was far more open than the previous periods. Some would say it was the final chains of the set ideas of medieval Europe being cast off; the end of a process that began in the renaissance.

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