The heirs of the artistic traditions of the Middle Ages, the Spanish baroque, and the English Renaissance, the romantics revealed the unusual complexity, depth, and contradictoriness of the inner, subjective nature of man, the inner infinity of the individual personality. They viewed man as a ...
Horace, I know, does not recommend this fashion altogether: But that gentleman is speaking only of an epic poem or a tragedy;—(I forget which,) besides, if it was not so, I should beg Mr. Horace’s pardon;—for in writing what I have set about, I shall confine myself neither to...
It’s sheer beauty. Genius. Redemptive. It’s everything a gothic story full of dark Romanticism should be. Some may find the romance here too tragic, but there is love in tragedy. For me, there was hope and light to the romantic ending that is just everything. I won’t say why ot...
"Lyrical Drama and the `Turbid Mountebanks': Styles of Dialogue in Romantic and Renaissance Tragedy". Computers and the Humanities, 28 (1994), 63-86.J. F. Burrows,D. H. Craig.  Lyrical drama and the “turbid mountebanks”: Styles of dialogue in romantic and renaissance tragedy[J]....
The Cenci, verse tragedy in five acts by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in London in 1819 and first staged privately by the Shelley Society in 1886. Modeled after Shakespearean tragedy, it is noted for its powerful characters, evocative language, and mo
The romance was a tale or ballad of chivalric adventure whose emphasis on individual heroism and on the exotic and the mysterious was in clear contrast to the elegant formality and artificiality of prevailing Classical forms of literature, such as the French Neoclassical tragedy or the English ...
the elegant formality and artificiality of prevailing Classical forms of literature, such as the French Neoclassicaltragedyor the Englishheroic coupletin poetry. This new interest in relatively unsophisticated but overtly emotional literary expressions of the past was to be a dominant note in Romanticism...
the elegant formality and artificiality of prevailing Classical forms of literature, such as the French Neoclassicaltragedyor the Englishheroic coupletin poetry. This new interest in relatively unsophisticated but overtly emotional literary expressions of the past was to be a dominant note in Romanticism...
(Simonides). He introduced in hisSielanki(1614; “Idylls”) a poeticgenrethat was to retain its vitality until the end of the 19th century. These pastoral poems exemplify the processes of imitation,adaptation, and assimilation by which Renaissance writers brought foreign models into the native ...
The romance was a tale or ballad of chivalric adventure whose emphasis on individual heroism and on the exotic and the mysterious was in clear contrast to the elegant formality and artificiality of prevailing Classical forms of literature, such as the French Neoclassical tragedy or the English ...