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James Macpherson published the collection of poems known as the Ossian cycle in 1762. These works described natural beauty and ancient legends with emotional intensity to influence writers like Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge launched the Romantic Age through their joint publication Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Most poems within that volume were written by Wordsworth and dealt with lives of poor people in his native Lake District or his feelings about nature.
Philosophers Johann Gottlieb Fichte and Friedrich Schelling lived in Jena where they created a center for early German Romanticism alongside Hegel and the brothers Schlegel. Ludwig Tieck, Novalis, Heinrich von Kleist, and Friedrich Hölderlin emerged as important writers during this period.
Victor Hugo achieved success on stage with Hernani featuring historical drama in quasi-Shakespearean style with riotous performances upon first run in 1830. This work became a paradigm of French Romantic movement following the Bourbon Restoration.
Nathaniel Hawthorne developed romantic American novel fully with atmosphere and drama of The Scarlet Letter published in 1850. By 1880s psychological and social realism competed with Romanticism in novels.