romanticistic

It serves equally the ideal and the real; that which it is loath to serve is the unreal, so that among the short stories which have recently made reputations for their authors very few are of that peculiar cast which we have no name for but romanticistic.

Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

The only distinguished modern writer of romanticistic novelle whom I can think of is Mr. Bret Harte, and he is of a period when romanticism was so imperative as to be almost a condition of fiction.

Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

Balzac, when he imagined these monsters, was not Balzac, he was Dumas; he was not realistic, he was romanticistic.

Criticism and Fiction William Dean Howells 1878

It was romantic as Shakespeare himself was romantic, in an elder sense of the word, and not romanticistic as Dumas was romanticistic.

Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

It must be as hard to think up anything new in that kind as in romanticistic fiction, which circus-acting otherwise largely resembles.

Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878

The only distinguished modern writer of romanticistic novelle whom I can think of is Mr. Bret Harte, and he is of a period when romanticism was so imperative as to be almost a condition of fiction.

Some Anomalies of the Short Story (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878

It serves equally the ideal and the real; that which it is loath to serve is the unreal, so that among the short stories which have recently made reputations for their authors very few are of that peculiar cast which we have no name for but romanticistic.

Some Anomalies of the Short Story (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878

I am never so enamoured of a cause that I will not admit facts that seem to tell against it, and I will allow that this writer of romanticistic short stories has more than any other supplied us with memorable types and characters.

Some Anomalies of the Short Story (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878

At heart Clemens was romantic, and he would have had the world of fiction stately and handsome and whatever the real world was not; but he was not romanticistic, and he was too helplessly an artist not to wish his own work to show life as he had seen it.

My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878

It was romantic as Shakespeare himself was romantic, in an elder sense of the word, and not romanticistic as Dumas was romanticistic.

Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878