Who applied the term \Romantic\to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?
Correct answer: B. English historians half a century after the period ended
- A. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien r´gime, especially satire
- B. English historians half a century after the period ended
- C. The Satanic School\of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers
- D. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)
Explanation
The label Romantic was applied retrospectively by English literary historians, roughly half a century after the period had ended. The poets themselves did not originally use it as the standard name for the period.
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