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At one stage Romantic meant anything capable of being described in a novel ’dans un roman’. Even within the limits of this definition, one is legitimately aware of the fact that the Romantic Movement in France leans towards forms of literature: predominantly pastoral or pantheistic in England, predominantly revivalist and nationalist in Germany, Romanticism is consistently literary or theatrical in France.
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May 30, 2026 06:56AM
I had thought of reading H Bloom on the Romantics but that will have to wait.
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Jonfaith wrote: "I had thought of reading H Bloom on the Romantics but that will have to wait."Jon, which book of Bloom are you eyeing (Romanticism and Consciousness?) - Since a long time, I have Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives waiting here to be read, but because I am a little more familiar with the French, I started with this one instead...
Indeed, it is R&C. I have a handy mass market copy. Very portable. Alas I am going to continue with Nabakov for a while, if not the month, then perhaps Bloom, Byron and Keats.
