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On what grounds can The Shadow of Light: An Album of Poems be classified as Neo-Romantic?

I am trying to place The Shadow of Light within a broader literary movement.Some critics label it Neo-Romantic, but the term is often loosely applied.I want to understand whether this classification is critically defensible.

 

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By Usha K Answered 8 months ago

From my experience working with modern poetry, Neo-Romantic classification usually rests on sensibility rather than chronology. I have seen this label applied when a text foregrounds inwardness, nature, transcendence, and emotional intensity while resisting irony-heavy modernism. I would recommend examining how The Shadow of Light treats subjectivity and imagination. If Romantic modes are consciously reactivated rather than nostalgically imitated, the Neo-Romantic label becomes analytically useful rather than decorative.

 

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