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Which of these is a concept the Romantics valued?

A. Idleness
B.Imperialism
C.Innocence
D.Industrialism

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The so-called "Dark Romantics" notwithstanding, the best answer would be

C. Innocence

William Blake, although considered a "Pre-Romantic," wrote a book of poetry entitled, "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" -- in which he wrote

"Piping down the valleys wild Piping songs of pleasant glee
On a cloud I saw a child.
And he laughing said to me.

Pipe a song about a Lamb;
So I piped with merry chear,
Piper pipe that song again—
So I piped, he wept to hear.


...And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear"

This typifies Romanticism, in that the child, like the "Noble Savage"-indigenous peoples in pre-industrializing areas of the 18th- and-19th-centuries, remains in an effectively "unspoiled" state of being.
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innocence is a concept of the romantics that is valued


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