Literature · Nineteenth-Century Literature
A topic within Nineteenth-Century Literature, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Literature.
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Jane Austen
Follows two sisters — one governed by prudent reserve, the other by unguarded feeling — to argue that neither Enlightenment sense nor Romantic sensibility alone is a safe guide to love, only their difficult combination.
link checked 17 Sept 2026William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wordsworth's Preface argues poetry should use 'the real language of men' about ordinary rural life, while Coleridge's contributions supply the supernatural counterweight, together laying out English Romanticism's founding manifesto.
link checked 17 Sept 2026