Name two defining characteristics of Romantic literature?

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Romantic literature centers on emotion and imagination, and it celebrates nature and the individual. Writers of this movement trust feeling and the imagination to understand truth, and they turn to the natural world as a source of inspiration and the sublime, often highlighting personal experience and inner life. This combination perfectly captures what Romantic works emphasize.

The other descriptions point to different literary currents: turning to scientific rationalism and urban realism reflects Enlightenment and Realist concerns with reason and society; using satire and irony as political tools aligns with political or satirical writing; stressing stoic restraint and logical argument fits earlier classical or rationalist traditions that downplay emotion.