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 ..................................................................... --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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