LITERARY MOVEMENTS – ROMANTIC REVIVAL
Preamble Romantic revival denotes a literary movement in which romanticism reasserted itself as the dominant trend in English literature again, after playing second fiddle to classicism during the neoclassical movement. The publication of the anthology Lyrical Ballads containing poems by Wordsworth and Coleridge is generally recognized as marking the formal inauguration of the movement in the literature of England, and 1850 the year of the former’s death is widely considered as indicating its conclusion. With the dominant trend shifting from classicism to romanticism, it is notable that the literatures produced during the romantic revival marked a distinct contrast from those of the neoclassical movement. It is also noteworthy that the influence of classical texts and the ideas manifested in them, which remained influential during both the renaissance and the neoclassical movement, lost their appeal in the romantic revival. Causes Several factors could be ci