Who first coined the term "Romantic" to describe the literary era spanning 1785 to 1830?

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William Wordsworth, aiming to set his poetry and that of his contemporaries apart from the classical tradition, especially satirical worksEnglish scholars who introduced the term around fifty years after the Romantic period concludedThe group known as the "Satanic School," including Byron, Percy Shelley, and their admirersOliver Goldsmith, through his poem The Deserted Village published in 1770None of the above

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The designation "Romantic" for the literary period between 1785 and 1830 was not used by the poets of the time but was introduced by English historians approximately fifty years after the era ended. While Wordsworth and others distinguished their work from earlier traditions, the actual term was applied retrospectively. Neither the "Satanic School" nor Oliver Goldsmith coined this term.

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