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Neo-romanticism suffered neglect in the art world, when the strong waves of state-sponsored abstract expressionism and Warhol-ian pop art swept in from the USA from the 1950s to the 1970s.

But as major ecological awareness and ' back to the land ' movements began in the mid to late 1970s ; then the work of the neo-romantics began to be, once again, re-discovered and re-evaluated, often through the work of magazines such as Resurgence.

Before this it survived most strongly in British poetry, for example in the growing posthumous reputation of Dylan Thomas, in the work of Vernon Watkins, Laurie Lee, and the celebratory poems of Ted Hughes.

One can also see neo-romanticism emerging in the serious science fiction and fantasy writing of the period.

Benjamin Britten might be noted in this period ; given his strong attraction to supernatural themes, folk music and the use of ' the innocent boy ' as a motif.