The correct answer is “because the writers admired the emotional tone of life before the Enlightenment.
Some authors in the 1800s glorified the past because they admired the emotional tone of life before the Enlightenment.
The writers in the Romanticism admired the emotional tone of life of the epoch because they were against the elemental concepts of order, harmony, and balance. The writers before the Enlightenment did not agree with classism. They were rebellious against the Enlightenment ideas. The writers in Romanticism favored the imagination, were more spontaneous and intuitive. Their works were more emotional.