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Romanticism

Romanticism

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Walter Pater
Walter Pater

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Summary: Walter Pater claims that classicism and romanticism are not as opposed to each other as people might say. He goes on to define romanticism as a mixture of curiosity and beauty that makes use of strangeness and the grotesque and is present in all ages.

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