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In the mid-to-late 18th century, while Horace Walpole's 'The Castle of Otranto' (1764) established the foundational text for Gothic fiction, which of the following groups of writers were specifically identified as Notable Transitional / Graveyard Poets who moved away from Augustan reason to explore emotion, melancholy, and the sublime?
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- 1Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, John Stagg, George Crabbe, and Robert Burns
- 2Henry Fielding, Tobias Smollett, Laurence Sterne, Fanny Burney, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- 3Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Edward Gibbon, David Hume, Adam Smith, and Thomas Reid
- 4Robert Blair, Thomas Gray, William Collins, Mark Akenside, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Percy, William Cowper, James Macpherson, Thomas Chatterton, and Thomas Warton✓
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Robert Blair, Thomas Gray, William Collins, Mark Akenside, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Percy, William Cowper, James Macpherson, Thomas Chatterton, and Thomas Warton
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