Word: romanticist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...poet Blake was the first Romanticist, printing his "Poetical Sketches" before Byron, Shelly, or Keats were born. In the "Argument" to his "Marriage of Heaven and Hell" (1790--the book which Swinburne called "about the greatest produced by the Eighteenth Century in the line of high poetry and spiritual speculation"--is the first Free Verse in English. At other times Blake attained a sort of "polyphonic prose...