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Brazilian literature
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......national feeling and ushered in the romantic era, which is generally dated from the...Alegre. The two major Brazilian romantic poets were Antônio Gonçalves Dias...created by Alvares de Azevedo. The romantic era also witnessed the birth of the......
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Polish literature
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......Niemcewicz, bridged the classical and romantic periods in Polish literature. The Nineteenth CenturyThe romantic era, with its revolutionary and reform...Słowacki, and Zygmunt Krasiński. Romantic novelists of note were Jozef Korzeniowski......
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Beethoven, Ludwig van
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......crowned the classical period and also effectively initiated the romantic era in music. He is one of the few artists...definitive break with the past and the birth of a new era. The length, structure, harmonies, and orchestration......
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Elssler, Fanny
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......United States and after appearances throughout Europe retired in 1851. She was one of the most important ballerinas of the Romantic era; her dancing was sensuous, earthy, and fired by great energy. Her sister, Thérèse, often supported her as partner......
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ballet
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......ballet costume. The Romantic Period and Ballet's EclipseIn...Sylphide (1832) the romantic period formally began, ushering in a new era of brilliant choreography...great ballerinas of the era included Taglioni, Fanny...literature and art of the romantic movement, the new ballet......
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Gorky, Maxim
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......Instilled by his grandmother with a love of romantic tales and great sympathy for mankind...author was an immediate sensation. These romantic tales concern the vigor and nobility of...for many intellectuals and artists in an era of intellectual restriction. Exhausted......
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Norwegian literature
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......Jonas Lie, Alexander Kielland, and Arne Garborg. The neo-romantic movement of the 1890s called forth the imaginative brilliance...Heiberg.Many different themes and styles prevailed in the era after World War I. Johan Bojer, Peter Egge (1869–1959......
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polyphony
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......development of major and minor tonalities led in the baroque era to a polyphony controlled by harmony. The fugues and chorale...texture is more characteristic of the music of the classical and romantic eras, but in the 20th cent. there has been renewed interest......
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Persian literature
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......The 11th cent. also witnessed the blossoming of the great romantic epics in Persian under masters such as Nizami (d. c.1209...many immigrant Persian poets. The prominent scholars of the era include Nasir ad-Din Tusi (d. 1274), Juwayni (d. 1283......
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English literature
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......literary criticism in the tradition.Many others in a historical era when poetic talents were highly valued, were skilled poets...prose work Euphues (1578); Robert Greene, the first to write romantic comedy; the versatile Thomas Lodge and Thomas Nashe; Thomas......