tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24992235.post2394413343464949500..comments2024-03-11T05:59:48.984-05:00Comments on Costanza Book Club: What made the Romantic poets Romantic poets?Pacifist Vikinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16630996018868040440noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24992235.post-53999879941282953482007-05-19T19:28:00.000-05:002007-05-19T19:28:00.000-05:00Usually the era directly after defines the era dir...Usually the era directly after defines the era directly before; if I had to guess, it was the Realists and Victorians who called the Romantics "the Romantics." Still, there are general trends in the particular time--reading Wordsworth, Shelley, and Keats often seems like looking through different windows of the same house (and inside the house is Milton!). There is something unique in the Romantics, but I recognize that their big themes were but major points of emphasis that had been developed earlier.Pacifist Vikinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16630996018868040440noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24992235.post-4658678013389840142007-05-19T14:59:00.000-05:002007-05-19T14:59:00.000-05:00Who originally defined these writers as Romantics?...Who originally defined these writers as Romantics?Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10346141872333392855noreply@blogger.com