Who applied the term \Romantic\to the literary period dating from 1785 to 1830 ?

A. English historians half a century after the period ended

B. The Satanic School\of Byron, Percy Shelley, and their followers

C. Oliver Goldsmith in The Deserted Village (1770)

D. Wordsworth because he wanted to distinguish his poetry and the poetry of his friends from that of the ancien rgime, especially satire

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