 | 1886 - 890 pages
...which has given to the term " romantic " a far wider significance than that of literary classification. We speak of romantic characters, romantic situations,...we mean by this expression ? Something very subtle, undefiuable, but felt by all. If we analyze the feeling we shall find, I think, that it has its origin... | |
 | Frederic Henry Hedge - 1888 - 348 pages
...which has given to the term " romantic " a far wider significance than that of literary classification. We speak of romantic characters, romantic situations,...Something very subtle, undefinable, but felt by all. If we analyze the feeling, we shall find, I think, that it has its origin in wonder and mystery. It is the... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 232 pages
...qualities only that it seeks the middle age." 1 Again, Dr. FH Hedge declares that the Romantic feeling has its origin in wonder and mystery. " It is the...sense of something hidden, of imperfect revelation. . . . The peculiarity of the classic style is reserve, self-suppression of the writer. . . . The Romantic... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 208 pages
...qualities only that it seeks the middle age." * Again, Dr. FH Hedge declares that the Romantic feeling has its origin in wonder and mystery. " It is the...sense of something hidden, of imperfect revelation. . . . The peculiarity of the classic style is reserve, self-suppression of the writer. . . . The Romantic... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - 1893 - 236 pages
...qualities only that it seeks the middle age." ' Again, Dr. FH Hedge declares that the Romantic feeling has its origin in wonder and mystery. " It is the...sense of something hidden, of imperfect revelation. . . . The peculiarity of the classic style is reserve, self-suppression of the writer. . . . The Romantic... | |
 | 1900 - 730 pages
...to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art." Dr. F. if. Hedge : " The romantic feeling has its origin in wonder and mystery. It is the sense of something hidden, of imperfect revelation. . . . The peculiarity of the classic style is reserve, self-suppression of the writer. . . . The romantic... | |
 | Charles Henry Caffin - 1905 - 544 pages
...beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art"; again, Dr. FH Hedge, " The romantic feeling has its origin in wonder and mystery. It is the sense of something hidden, of imperfect revelation." The mystery of this picture, its spaces of light and darkness, that the eye explores but cannot fathom,... | |
 | Albert Gehring - 1908 - 256 pages
...form does not reveal the idea through this identity, but lets this idea be surmised parabolically.1 Hedge says: We speak of romantic characters, romantic...It is the sense of something hidden, of imperfect revelation.2 Another definition is given by Walter Pater : It is the addition of strangeness to beauty... | |
 | Albert Gehring - 1908 - 266 pages
...form does not reveal the idea through this identity, but lets this idea be surmised parabolically.1 Hedge says: We speak of romantic characters, romantic...we mean by this expression? Something very subtle, undefinable,but felt by all. If we analyse the feeling we shall find, I think, that it has its origin... | |
 | William McDougall - 1921 - 238 pages
...constitutes the romantic temper." Another critic gives substantially the same definition of the romantic. " If we analyse the feeling we shall find, I think,...sense of something hidden, of imperfect revelation." (Hedge.) Curiosity or wonder, then, seems to be the essence of the romantic. Now, curiosity, with the... | |
| |
We speak of romantic characters, romantic situations, romantic scenery. What do we mean by this expression? Something very subtle, undefinable, but felt by all. If we analyse the feeling we shall find, I think, that it has its origin in wonder and mystery.... 