A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century by Henry A. Beers examines romanticism as a subject of literary history. The preface says that writers of English literary history have generally treated the movement as a tendency in individual authors rather than giving it a place by itself. The discussion describes Alfred de Musset's satire on the baffling and contradictory definitions of romanticism.
The account of Addison says that the grotesque in Gothic art was abhorrent to him and that he could neither sympathize with that art nor understand it. The author quotes Vicesimus Knox's complaint that the antiquarian spirit was spreading from architecture and numismatics into literature. The reference list includes works on early English poets, ancient Welsh bards, and the history of architecture.
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- Henry A. Beers
- Pages
- 336
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- English
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