contrast, the previous Classical period of literature favored the use of heroic couplets, as deployed by Alexander Pope to satirize contemporary events with great literary style. Romanticism conceived of the free artist as writing or composing for his or her own pleasure, the Classical Period for the public's pleasure.

The Romantics believed that the artistic imagination was the supreme ideal that all humans must strive towards, an imagination that held the emotions superior to pure reason of the mind. ("Romanticism," Brooklyn College, 2005) This contrasted distinctly with the

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