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 | The attention devoted to the tales of the Decameron among English poets of the Romantic period is indicative of a certain fundamental yet complex relationship between the aspirations and the themes of Boccaccio's text and those of the poetry of that revolutionary generation of writers. |
| Most Romantic poets, at times referring specifically to medieval writers and using their works as source material, also demonstrate these inclinations toward, as Fairchild puts it, "realizing the ideal" and "idealizing the real" (ibid. |
| Much Romantic poetry, like the Decameron, involves an attention to landscape and the natural world, the importance of intense human emotion and passion, particularly when associated with Love, and an attention to strangeness in beauty or to the exotic. |
| Lives and Works of the English Romantic Poets (1183 words) |
| The verse of the English Romantic poets is as daunting in its scope and complexity as it is dazzling in its technique and beautiful in its language. |
| The Romantics were conscious of consciousness itself—of the power of the mind as a force for self-glorification and a seed of self-destruction. |
| Women Romantic poets had sunk into obscurity by the middle of the 20th century, but in their time their volumes were bestsellers. |
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