frlit1-6, Exercise 1: Features of Romanticism Model answer (any three): Feeling over rules: emotion, imagination and originality were valued above the strict forms of classical drama, which held to the three unities and propriety. The past: medieval and historical settings were fashionable, in reaction against the Enlightenment and the Revolution, where classical writers looked to antiquity. Nature and the self: landscape, solitude and personal suffering were central, especially in poetry, where classical writers favoured public, elevated subjects. A wider audience: cheaper printing and newspapers created readers outside the salons and the court. Check the details against a reference work.