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The political and economic atmosphere at the time heavily influenced this period, with many writers finding inspiration from the French Revolution. -
The Industrial Revolution
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The early period of the Romantic era was a time of war, with the French Revolution
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William Blake publishes The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. -
Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein. ... -
as compositions became increasingly expressive and inventive. Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano music, dramatic operas, and passionate songs took inspiration from art and literature.
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political events and social processes as the American and French Revolutions, the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, -
The Romantic Period overthrew the values instilled during the Augustan Age and strove to sever itself from the rigid writing styles of the ancient, classical examples of Virgil, Horace, and Homer.