Book description
CONTENTS:
1. DEFINITIONS AND USAGE
Post-Romantic usage
The Romantics’ own usage
The origins of "romantic"
2. THE PRE-HISTORY OF THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT
The decline of the Neo-classical system
The questionings of the Enlightenment
The innovations of Pre-Romanticism
3. THE ROMANTICS AND THEIR WORKS
The successive groups
The works
4. PROBLEMS
Unity or diversity?
The relationship of "romantic" to "classical" and "realistic"
The after-effects of Romanticism
