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"romantic groves", "Cumbria's rude, romantic clime", and "sweet delirium of romantic thought", while in "An Italian Song", written 1793, he offers "loved lute's romantic sound". Blake in his pre-1798 poetry never employs this adjective.

d. Anne Radcliffe's employment of the epithet "romantic”.

An interesting sidelight on the use of the epithet "romantic" in the 18th. century comes in "The Mysteries of Udolpho", published in 1794 by Mrs. Anne Radcliffe, who was an outand-out Romantic. The verses figuring in this novel present the phrases "romantic nook" ("The Sea Nymph"), "r. bower" ("To the Bat"), "dark, r. steeps" ("To the Winds"), and "the wild r. dream, that meets the poet's musing eye" ("To Melancholy"). "The Mysteries" contains in the prose some thirtyeight instances, of which twenty-three refer to scenery, as e. g. "They wandered away among the most romantic and magnificent scenes", and "romantic town"; seven to character and emotion, as "romantic tenderness" and "a frank... nature, but... romantic"; three to imagination and thought, as "a thousand fairy visions and ""r. images"; two to situations in which people find themselves, as "r. and improbable... situation" one to literature, "romantic fictions taken from the Arabians".

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