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:

ABen Franklin or Thomas Jefferson

BKarl Marx or Charles Dickens

CMartin Luther or Ignatius Loyola

DEdgar Allen Poe or Cotton Mather