inner theme is most apparent in the “black genre”—the preromantic Gothic novel (A. Radcliffe and C. Maturin) and the “tragedy of fate” (Z. Werner, H. von Kleist, F. Grillparzer)—as well as in the works of Byron, C. Brentano, E. T. A. Hoffmann, E. A. Poe, and N. ...
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...
[57][58] She also produced three completed novels, a tragedy and numerous short stories. Romantic novel[edit] See also: Novel and English novelMary Shelley Mary Shelley (1797–1851) is remembered as the author of Frankenstein (1818). The plot of this is said to have come from a waking...
then served at the royal court inKrakówuntil he settled down at his country estate. He began writing in Latin but soon switched to the vernacular. He wrote both satirical poetry and classical tragedy, but his lyrical works proved to be superior to anything written before him. His crowning ac...
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...
(in which love was regarded as an ennobling, educating force) and the modern world (which perceived love as obsessive, a lofty but destructive passion). The tragedy ofTristan and Isoldecontradicts the love pedagogy that had shaped Érec and Énite, Iwein, and Parzival into models of ...
Ángel de Saavedra, duke de Rivas was a Spanish poet, dramatist, and politician, whose fame rests principally on his play Don Álvaro, o la fuerza del sino (“Don Álvaro, or the Power of Fate”), which marked the triumph of Romantic drama in Spain
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...
Settling next at Rome, Shelley continuedPrometheus Unboundand outlinedThe Cenci,a tragedy on the Elizabethan model based on a case of incestuous rape and patricide in sixteenth-century Rome. He completed thisdramaduring the summer of 1819 near Leghorn, where the Shelleys fled in June after their...