Classic, Romantic, and Modern, Volume 10Drawing from the works of influential figures in art and literature, the author traces the development of romanticism from classicism and the emergence of the modern ego. |
Contents
RomanticismDead or Alive? | 1 |
Rousseau and Modern Tyranny | 18 |
The Classic Objection | 36 |
Romantic Art | 58 |
Romantic Life | 78 |
The Four Phases of Romanticism | 96 |
The Modern Ego | 115 |
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Page 203 - The wiser effort would have been to diffuse thought and imagination through the opaque substance of to-day, and thus to make it a bright transparency; to spiritualize the burden that began to weigh so heavily; to seek, resolutely, the true and indestructible value that lay hidden in the petty and wearisome incidents, and ordinary characters, with which I was now conversant.