Manifesto of Romanticism
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| [[Victor Hugo]]'s [[Cromwell_%28play%29#Full_French_text_of_the_preface|preface]] to the [[1827]] play ''[[Cromwell (play)|Cromwell]]'' is said to be the manifesto of Romanticism. | [[Victor Hugo]]'s [[Cromwell_%28play%29#Full_French_text_of_the_preface|preface]] to the [[1827]] play ''[[Cromwell (play)|Cromwell]]'' is said to be the manifesto of Romanticism. | ||
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A number of texts and paintings have been called manifestoes of Romanticism.
Victor Hugo's preface to the 1827 play Cromwell is said to be the manifesto of Romanticism.
The same has been said of De l'Allemagne by Madame de Staël (1813), and in the English tradition, Wordsworth's and Coleridge's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (1802), which stated that "all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings".
In painting, Théodore Géricault's The Raft of the Medusa has been called the "first Romantic painting".
Besides these texts and paintings, a couple of dicta deserve attention:
For example, the importance the Romantics placed on untrammelled feeling is summed up in the remark of the German painter Caspar David Friedrich that "the artist's feeling is his law" and by William Wordsworth who said that poetry should be "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings".
Starting points for Romanticism
Starting points for Romanticism include:
- "Piranesi's Roman Antiquities of the Time of the Republic of 1748 (Michel Florisoone); the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 (Kenneth Clark); Rousseau's Rousseau's La Nouvelle Héloïse of 1761 (Maurice Cranston); Herder's journey to France in 1769 (Rüdiger Safranski); Blake's Songs of Innocence of 1789 (Maurice Bowra); and Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder and Ludwig Tieck's Heart-Felt Effusions of an Art Loving Monk of 1797 (Hans Joachim Schoeps). Other popular runners are Rousseau's conversion experience on the road to Vincennes in 1749, Horace Walpole's nightmare which led to the writing of The Castle of Otranto in 1764; and Goethe's enthusiastic response to Strassburg Cathedral in 1770." The Romantic Revolution by Tim Blanning)
And of course Arthur Lovejoy wrote "On the Discrimination of Romanticisms"
See also
- Romanticism
- Protoromanticism
- Literary manifesto
- "What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick." - Goethe
