romantics

"Imagination," for the romantics, is regularly contrasted to rather than being equated with mental imaging: the first lesson we give to students of romanticism is that for Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats, "imagination" is a power of consciousness that transcends mere visualization.

The Romantic Education of W.J.T. Mitchell 1997

"Imagination," for the romantics, is regularly contrasted to rather than being equated with mental imaging: the first lesson we give to students of romanticism is that for Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats, "imagination" is a power of consciousness that transcends mere visualization.

The Last Formalist, or W.J.T. Mitchell as Romantic Dinosaur 1997

We Russians, speaking generally, have never had those foolish transcendental "romantics" -- German, and still more French -- on whom nothing produces any effect; if there were an earthquake, if all France perished at the barricades, they would still be the same, they would not even have the decency to affect a change, but would still go on singing their transcendental songs to the hour of their death, because they are fools.

Notes from the Underground 1918

We Russians, speaking generally, have never had those foolish transcendental "romantics" -- German, and still more French -- on whom nothing produces any effect; if there were an earthquake, if all France perished at the barricades, they would still be the same, they would not even have the decency to affect a change, but would still go on singing their transcendental songs to the hour of their death, because they are fools.

Notes from the Underground Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1851

"The romantics are the ones with these gigantic expectations!" laughed Comaroto.

Kari Henley: How To Make Valentine's Day More Authentic Kari Henley 2011

"The romantics are the ones with these gigantic expectations!" laughed Comaroto.

Kari Henley: How To Make Valentine's Day More Authentic Kari Henley 2011

So that the first object of the revolt of the romantics was the purely literary object of getting rid of the vice of an unreal and artificial manner of writing.

English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge G. H. Mair 1906

The brilliantly original Stewart Brand, in his new book "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto," has a whole chapter on the environmental movement's age-old divide between the "romantics" and the "scientists."

John Wihbey: After Copenhagen Chaos, A Bit of Emerson for the Soul 2009

But are us 'romantics' on the right just supposed to take it on trust that under all the positioning games, presentation, rebranding, and PR, the cherished values are really there?

The Brown Maggot Newmania 2007

Innumerable "romantics" attain later in life to considerable rank in the service.

Notes from the Underground 1918