Literary theory: the good, the bad, and the incomprehensible (Part 1)
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The Origins of Poetry in the Early 1800s
In the 1800s, there were two schools of literature: romantics and critics. Romantics responded against what they thought was bad about the 1700s with its cold classicism. The poets themselves would start to become like literary theorists. John Ruskin was a big fan of the Pre-Raphaelites but also heavily influential in their work.
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