Companion to Romanticism (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: October 1, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 568
ISBN-13: 9780631218777
First sentence: Of course, romantic is used in several senses; but it is important to us as it appears with a capital 'R', or as an '-ism' - a literary-historical classification which labels certain writers and writings of the later eighteenth and early nineteenth century, and the ideas characteristically found in those works (and often in later works, too).