Fill in the blank. Although Sir Philip Sidney is writing 200 years before the .... revolution, he presents a very inward and self-absorbed narrator in "Astrophil and Stella." ?
Correct answer: C. Romantic
- A. Medieval
- B. Victorian
- C. Romantic
- D. None of the above
Explanation
Sidney’s Astrophil and Stella anticipates the inward, self-conscious treatment of emotion associated with the Romantic revolution, despite being written about two centuries earlier. The medieval and Victorian periods do not fit this comparison.
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