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"Among these various contributions, the collection of 451 fragments, known as Athenaeum fragments, and Friedrich Schlegel's Dialogue on Poetry are perhaps the most important for the formation of early Romantic theory."--German Romantic Literary Theory (1993) by Ernst Behler and ‎H. B. Nisbet

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Romantic theory was written by Victor Hugo in the preface to Cromwell and in Baudelaire's body of art criticism.

Both Hugo and Baudelaire celebrate the cult of ugliness. Hugo by praising the grotesque as a modern sensibility, Baudelaire indirectly by praising his personal friend Delacroix, who was directly influenced by the darkest romanticist of them all, Géricault. Add to this Baudelaire his famous dictum "le beau est toujours bizarre".

I've previously mentioned and shown Géricault's monomaniacs, his studies of Truncated Limbs, Anatomical Pieces and Severed Heads.

To those can be added his Mazeppa and two new finds of today: his Head of a Drowned Man[1] and Les trois crânes[2] (shown above).

Goethe has the last word on Romanticism when he said that "What is Classical is healthy; what is Romantic is sick." His dictum is a manifestation of the eternal return of "classic vs. new" and negative classicism first fought over in the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.

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