Many Romantic artists and musicians challenged the Neoclassicists. Rather than focus on the past, some sought to portray working people and their hard life with brutal honesty. Philosophically they were closest to thinkers and writers such as:
Select one:
a. Ben Franklin or Thomas Jefferson
b. Karl Marx or Charles Dickens
c. Martin Luther or Ignatius Loyola
d. Edgar Allen Poe or Cotton Mather