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The Da Vinci Code in relation to the inventive secular thinking of the Romantics is this: that the boundaries of community seem occasionally to be circumscribed — as they seldom are in Radcliffe or the poets she inspired — by a highly personalized and predetermined set of coordinates constituting a
Romantic Fear 2008
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Romantics is by now "hopelessly naive, escapist, and self-deluding," distinguishing between romantic lyric and conventional neoromanticism; while Altieri examines in detail how Arnold’s Wordsworth constructed
Introduction 2003
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I had no idea who Milton was, but taking that course along with one on the Romantics was the only way I could get out of the second half of the Brit Lit survey.
Archive 2008-12-01 Flavia 2008
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I had no idea who Milton was, but taking that course along with one on the Romantics was the only way I could get out of the second half of the Brit Lit survey.
Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2008
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Thus, while the besetting sin of the Romantics is the employment of excessive, or irrelevant, or trivial or grotesque detail, the besetting sin of the Classics is so complete an omission of realistic detail that the description becomes inflated, windy and empty, and the strongest words in the language lose their vital force because they are set fluttering hither and thither in multitudes, with no substantial hold upon reality.
Milton Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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'The Bachelor' Casting Call Romantics vie for a spot on ABC's reality show.
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'The Bachelor' Casting Call Romantics vie for a spot on ABC's reality show.
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'The Bachelor' Casting Call Romantics vie for a spot on ABC's reality show.
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'The Bachelor' Casting Call Romantics vie for a spot on ABC's reality show.
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When I first visited these spaces, I did in fact think of other artists who were interested in the sublime, namely the Romantics:
World of SL 2010
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