The Early Romantics met resistance from artists and academics alike
in part because they defied the conventional wisdom that philosophy
and the arts must be kept separate. Indeed, as the literary
component of Romanticism has been studied and celebrated in recent
years, its philosophical aspect has receded from view. This book,
by one of the most respected scholars of the Romantic era, offers
an explanation of Romanticism that not only restores but enhances
understanding of the movement's origins, development, aims, and
accomplishments--and of its continuing relevance.
Poetry is in fact the general ideal of the Romantics, Frederick
Beiser tells us, but only if poetry is understood not just narrowly
as poems but more broadly as things made by humans. Seen in this
way, poetry becomes a revolutionary ideal that demanded--and still
demands--that we transform not only literature and criticism but
all the arts and sciences, that we break down the barriers between
art and life, so that the world itself becomes "romanticized."
Romanticism, in the view Beiser opens to us, does not conform to
the contemporary division of labor in our universities and
colleges; it requires a multifaceted approach of just the sort
outlined in this book.
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