Romanticism describes the era of the 19th century in which artists and poets strove for individuality and originality instead of conformity. Romantics rejected the traditional aesthetic values of the ...

If Rome is a mystery, so is Romanticism. If Rome, as the Eternal City, is so much more than the temporal city situated in the heart of Italy; Romanticism is so much more than romance, at least in the ...

HISTORIANS of music are accustomed to speak of the first half or three quarters of the nineteenth century as the Romantic Period in music, and of those composers who immediately follow Beethoven — ...

AT the Royal Institution on December 6, Mr. F. L. Lucas, fellow and librarian of King's College, Cambridge, delivered a discourse on this subject. Romanticism, he said, may perhaps be called the ...

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HISTORIES of German literature usually distinguish a Romantic School of writers whose activities began in the closing years of the eighteenth century and continued until the fourth decade of the ...