| 释义 |
pre-Romantic, a. (n.) Mus. and Lit.
Also pre-romantic.
[pre- B. 1.]
Pertaining to or characteristic of the period before the Romantic Movement. As n., a composer or writer of that period.
1934C. Lambert Music Ho! i. 57 Purcell, the most picturesque of the pre-Romantic composers. 1938C. Connolly in New Statesman 6 Aug. 223/1 The English pre-romantics..balanced their love of childhood by their hope of heaven. 1947A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era xi. 134 One can find examples of it, particularly in the opera, even in pre-Romantic opera. 1959Brno Studies in English I. 104 Bulwer attempted to follow in the steps of the great representatives of the English pre-romantic and romantic period, especially of William Godwin and Lord Byron. 1962Times 16 Feb. 15/3 Mozart is observed..as the clever pre-romantic tune-spinner. 1963N. Frye Romanticism Reconsidered 9 It is obvious that in pre-Romantic poetry there is a strong affinity with the attitude that we have called sense... But the pre-Romantic structure of imagery belonged to a nature which was the work of God. 1978D. Grylls Guardians & Angels iv. 112 In her treatment of parent-child relations Jane Austen is pre-Romantic. 1980Church Times 25 July 6/4 The enormous revolution in literary taste which began in the 'twenties..demoted Spenser, the tribe of Ben Jonson, and the eighteenth-century pre-romantics. |