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en-wikipedia-org-5111		Dark romanticism - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	2232	598	59	The name "Dark Romanticism" was given to this form by the literary theorist Mario Praz in his lengthy study of the genre published in 1930, The Romantic Agony.[1][2] British authors such as Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley, and John William Polidori, who are frequently linked to Gothic fiction, are also sometimes referred to as Dark Romantics.[9] Dark Romanticism is characterized by stories of personal torment, social outcasts, and usually offers commentary on whether the nature of man will save or destroy him.[citation needed] Some Victorian authors of English horror fiction, such as Bram Stoker and Daphne du Maurier, follow in this lineage. French authors such as Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Charles Baudelaire, Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud echoed the dark themes found in the German and English literature. Twentieth-century existential novels have also been linked to Dark Romanticism,[12] as too have the sword and sorcery novels of Robert E.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5111.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5111.txt