The Literary Essay in EnglishGinn, 1923 - 260 pages |
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Page 64
... Romanticism , its arch - enemy , numbering among its allies the political , the social , and the moral forces of the times , won over the early Elizabethan dramatists from the disposition to make the English drama con- form to Senecan ...
... Romanticism , its arch - enemy , numbering among its allies the political , the social , and the moral forces of the times , won over the early Elizabethan dramatists from the disposition to make the English drama con- form to Senecan ...
Page 68
... Romanticism , then , expresses man's realization of his spiritual free- dom ; and its rules , its scope of subject matter , its free- dom , are determined and limited only by his soul . " ― - All this would have little to do 68 THE ...
... Romanticism , then , expresses man's realization of his spiritual free- dom ; and its rules , its scope of subject matter , its free- dom , are determined and limited only by his soul . " ― - All this would have little to do 68 THE ...
Page 69
... romanticism can but admire it and admit that it exercised some beneficial influence on the develop- ment of English literature . The artistic climax of the classic movement was followed by its rapid downfall , though Hegel's influence ...
... romanticism can but admire it and admit that it exercised some beneficial influence on the develop- ment of English literature . The artistic climax of the classic movement was followed by its rapid downfall , though Hegel's influence ...
Page 85
... romanticism . His troubled life , which began at War- wick and which was passed in perpetual lawsuits , ended in a King Lear tragedy . A gentleman by birth , by association , and by education , Landor unfortunately allowed himself to be ...
... romanticism . His troubled life , which began at War- wick and which was passed in perpetual lawsuits , ended in a King Lear tragedy . A gentleman by birth , by association , and by education , Landor unfortunately allowed himself to be ...
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... romanticism gone mad led the French revolu- tionists ; romanticism wove its messages into the flames of the fire before which Lincoln dreamed the dreams of his young manhood ; romanticism - if this is not saying too much - led us into ...
... romanticism gone mad led the French revolu- tionists ; romanticism wove its messages into the flames of the fire before which Lincoln dreamed the dreams of his young manhood ; romanticism - if this is not saying too much - led us into ...
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