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In general a thing is romantic when, as Aristotle would say, it is wonderful rather than probable; in other words, when it violate ...
Classical art, in a word, stands for form; romantic art for content. The romantic artist expects people to ask, What has he got to ...
Put shortly, these are the two views, then. One, that man is intrinsically good, spoilt by circumstance; and the other that he is ...
The words "classic" and "romantic," like many other critical expressions, sometimes abused by those who have understood them too v ...
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exe ...
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