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roˈmanticism|-ɪsɪz(ə)m| [f. romantic a.] 1. A romantic fancy or idea.
1803W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. I. 380 Public opinion heeds little the romanticisms of speculative philosophy. 2. Tendency towards romance or romantic views.
1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1872) 43 The romanticism killed him. 1864D. G. Mitchell Sev. Stor. 7, I do not believe that such imaginative exaltation of feeling..would beget..the very romanticism of charity. 1873Black Princ. of Thule (1874) II. iv. 126 Although, doubtless, a girl's romanticism was a pretty thing, it would have to yield to the actual requirements of life. 3. The distinctive qualities or spirit of the romantic school in art, literature, and music.
1823New Monthly Mag. IX. 175/2 The French Academy..has determined never to receive within its bosom any one polluted by the dramatic heresy of romanticism. 1830[see classicism 1]. 1844H. F. Chorley Music & Manners III. 36 M. Liszt illustrates in himself the criticism, the pianism, the romanticism of the new schools. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. 248 Side by side with the advocates of faith and feeling in the religious province, appeared German Romanticism in the field of art and literature. 1878Seeley Stein III. 437 Stein belonged to the class of society which naturally furnished recruits to Romanticism. 1934C. Lambert Music Ho! ii. 118 A title like the Pathetic Symphony is looked on as an example of decadent romanticism. 1937D. Bush Mythol. & Romantic Trad. in Eng. Poetry xii. 398 In various ways and for various reasons the broad deep stream of romanticism had run thin. 1941P. H. Lang Music in Western Civilization xv. 746 In Beethoven classicism became romantic, and in Schubert romanticism became classic. 1957F. Kermode Romantic Image viii. 145 Romanticism is just the new disease at the stage of mania. 1960A. O. Lovejoy in M. H. Abrams Eng. Romantic Poets 5 The offspring with which Romanticism is credited are as strangely assorted as its attributes and its ancestors. 1978Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Aug. 944/5 This..biography has its interest..as a portrait of a very unhappy man whom Romanticism destroyed. |