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Romanticism was a type of literature that arose in the beginning of the 1800's and continued for about sixty years. This style gave more value to feeling and intuition rather than reason. this was very common after the Industrial Revolution when everybody was trying to get away from their surroundings by reading of supernatural realms or of the natural world.
Romanticism is very obvious in the story Rip Van Winkle, by Washington Irving. In the story, there is a very lazy man that does no work. One day while he i
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