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Duncan Heath

Introducing Romanticism

  • b3422440867цитирует5 лет назад
    The age of “High Romanticism” made the word a focus for hopes of revolution and social change in the future. It became a political term.
  • ipatцитирует6 лет назад
    Romanticism, for want of any better word, came to stand for this new experience of the world. The true Romantic was not an over-sensitive dreamer, but a heroic figure facing head-on the painful realities of his time – a figure of genius.
  • ipatцитирует6 лет назад
    the free expression of imagination and association.
  • ipatцитирует6 лет назад
    authenticity, integrity and spontaneity. It was seen as a positive artistic and intellectual assertion of the extremes in the human psyche, the areas of experience beyond logic and reason which could only be expressed in a direct and heartfelt way. These new concerns were seen as a valid response to the extremes of change and uncertainty which the age itself displayed.
  • ipatцитирует6 лет назад
    Romantic” had in fact been used since the Renaissance to suggest free expression of the imagination in the arts, but mainly in a negative sense. Romantic imaginings were thought to interfere with the clarity of the art form, and so lay beyond the bounds of proper subject-matter. The emerging Romantic spirit of 18th century England was seen by some as a revival of Elizabethan literature and its “Gothic” tendencies. English Romanticism has been described as a “renaissance of the Renaissance”.
  • ipatцитирует6 лет назад
    The medieval romance or romaunt came to mean a tale of chivalry written in one of these romance languages, usually in verse, and often taking the form of a quest.
  • sgeeanneцитирует7 лет назад
    Our colloquial use of “romance” and “romantic” to describe intense emotional experiences
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