A History of Romanticism in Western Literature (632 words, 1 pages)
Romanticism 1800-1850RomanticismEach night, Leander would swim across a stretch of sea to meet his lover Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite. She would guide him by holding up a torch. One night, during a storm, Leander drowned. The grief stricken Hero threw herself from a tower. Here, the two dead lovers ...
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