Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 21:29:24 -0500
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: An entirely different subject


>At 10:42 AM -0800 11/8/97, Thad Q. Alexander wrote:
>>Oh yes! The Romantic period was a time were no longer was the voice, or the
>>freedom of expression by the poet or the commoner for that matter, stiffled
>...
>>
>>George, I'm I close here with shelly, or is it too vague?
>>Me
>
>"It is the poor artist who expresses himself. To be a treu poet you must
>learn Nature and express that." Goethe
>
>The Romanticist would say that he was freer - free from the tyranies of
>petty logic, free from the chains of whim, fashion and concern for
>affectations of position. He would say that to accomplish anything, one
>first had to submit oneself to its discipline. His expression was then
>"free" from all artificial constraints.
>
>Stirling Newberry

Blake, a much higher romantic than Goethe, would call both G. and
Wordsworth Druids, tree worshippers, and defined nature as a snare and a
delusion. His phrase is the "merely" natural.
g




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