Aroused, without doubt, by the poetic genius of the prose writer Chateaubriand, the first generation of the romantics was formed by Lamartine, Victor Hugo, and Alfred de Vigny.
The vocabulary of prose widened at the same time as that of verse; and the prose of the first Romanticsremained almost completely rhetorical.
Nowhere were the defects of the Romantics more obvious than in their treatment of history.
In truth the Romantics are right, and the serenity of the classic ideal is the serenity of paralysis and death.
Note how similar are these verses in content to the cries of love denied that rise from Gonçalves Dias and Casimiro de Abreu,--two Romantics of the movement’s height.
Insert Cruz e Souza’s verses, without their author’s name, among the clamorous output of the Romantics that preceded him, and see how difficult it is to single many of them out for any qualities that distinguish them as technique or matter.
The Romantics in their return to nature had necessarily to abolish it.
So that the first object of the revolt of the romanticswas the purely literary object of getting rid of the vice of an unreal and artificial manner of writing.
This imaginative sensibility of the romantics not only deepened their communion with nature, it brought them into a truer relation with what had before been created in literature and art.
But this was only apparent, and signified, if it signified anything, merely that the more juvenile excesses of the Romantics were out of date.
Although the immediate subject on which the battles of Classics and Romantics arose was dramatic poetry, the dramatic results of the movement have not been those of greatest value or most permanent character.
In their endeavor to exhibit certain truths of human life, do not the realists work inductively and the romantics deductively?
More and more, in recent years, the romantics have followed the lead of the realists in embodying their truth in scenes and characters imitated from actuality.
The realists gain nothing by hooting at the abuses of romance; and the romantics gain as little by yawning over realism at its worst.
We have been told also that the realists paint the manners of their own place and time, while the romantics deal with more remote materials.
Again, we have been told that, in their stories, the romantics dwell mainly upon the element of action, while the realists are interested chiefly in the element of character.
The realists have followed the letter, and the romantics the spirit, of other times and lands.
Indeed, it is impossible to read much about the Romantics of 1830, high or low, aristocratic or Bohemian, without coming to the conclusion that they were neither jealous nor mercenary.
Nevertheless, the Romantics were not crushed out of existence.
Only a few Romantics were proof against this insidious influence.
His four heroes are Romantics in general, but in no sense champions of any cause.
The salons of the pure Romantics made no pretence of splendour and were entirely free from the atmosphere of officialdom.
The Romantics conceived the poet as a God-sent prophet.
His absorption in George Sand, and through her in all the other French Romantics whose books he could either find for himself or borrow from Barbier, was carrying a ferment of passion and imagination through all his blood.
To 'a pair of romantics out of date,' the queer overgrown place she owned was perfection, and they took possession of it in a dream of excitement and joy.
The two romantics gazed at one another with an expression of nobility that required no words to enhance it.
What Nietzsche undoubtedly got from the romantics was a feeling of ease in the German language, a disregard for the artificial bonds of the schools, a sense of hospitality to the gipsy phrase.
Such is her skill that she sometimes seems to beat the Romantics even on their own ground: her reticences make a deeper impression than all the dottings of their i's.
The Romantics proper disdained his pedestrian and conventional style, his classic vocabulary.
The names which chiefly illustrate this second generation must be dealt with before the Romantics proper are arrived at.
It is true that the English romantics put forth no body of doctrine, no authoritative statement of a theory of literary art.
The first generation of English romantics was drawing to its close.
Minuit bientot" raised a tempest of hisses and applause, and that the opposing factions of classics and romantics "fought three days over this hemistich.
My own reading in the German romantics is by no means extensive.
Brentano and others of the romantics went so far as to practise assonance in their original as well as translated work.
On one day the romantics would carry a passage, which the enemy would retake the next day, and from which it became necessary to dislodge them.
The next group of reactionaries or romantics or whatever we elect to call them, gathers roughly around one great name.
This trend of the English Romantics to carry out the revolutionary idea not savagely in works, but very wildly indeed in words, had several results; the most important of which was this.
The romance of the French Romantics always verged on the melodramatic and artificial, and the stately classics are not happy in moments of this kind.
And therein the old ghost of the Romanticscomes to life asserting its "claims of the ideal," as Ibsen has the phrase.
They became two romantics born out of due season, two romantics that should have lived a century ago and that now bewailed the inability of the modern world to supply what their adventurous souls demanded.
The Romantics are young men, and the Classics are pedants; the Romantics will gain the day.
Brunetière, was a little too eager to use Balzac as a stick to beat theRomantics with for one thing, and to make him out a pioneer of all succeeding French fiction for another.
The kind of romanticsthat comes in a bottle ain't the real thing.
The Romantics and Realists were deaf men coming to blows about the squeak of a bat.
The world into which Cézanne tumbled was a world still agitated by the quarrels of Romantics and Realists.
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