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Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 10:35:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Howard Hastings <hhasting-AT-osf1.gmu.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Poetry, prose, fiction as meaningful


On Thu, 31 Aug 2000 zatavu-AT-excite.com wrote:

> >  I think not, especially in that Romanticism set itself against
> >  Classicism, quite deliberately. Its strength was in the coherence of its
> >  attack, not in the proposal to replace the attacked (Wordsworth, for
> >  instance, completely failed to get "Nature" to fly, and both PBS and STC
> >  saw that and worked on the imagination as alternative).
> 
> No, Romanticism was a reaction to the Enlightenment, and brought back a form
> of classicism in order to do so, thinking that it was closer to the
> emotional center they were trying to achieve through their Romanticism.
> ROmanticism gave direct rise to Neo-Classicism.

One has to ask: what writers, in your view, exemplify "neo-classicism"?

And which form of "classicism" was brought back by which romantic writers?

hh
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