We are all Romantics now

The enduring influence of Romantic poets and thinkers

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The great poet sat on a rocky outcrop and stared into the distance. The wind blew cold and wet. The brooding clouds chastised the sombre crags. That sort of thing.

The poet was laden with sorrow. He had received dispatches from town and one notice troubled him. Children — sweet, innocent children — were being suspended or expelled from their…