Persistence of Romanticism (Article by Eldrige)

Commentators of Romanticism usually emphasize one of the three elements at the expense of the other two; nature-place, prophetic ordinary language and....

Fundamentally, Romanticism aims to provide one with the

• Authority to direct one's life

• The opportunity to recover from social or political dispair

• The chance to develop concrete meaning of the world

• Specific and verifiable answers

In Romanticism, the process of imagining has been criticised of being too objective.

• True

• False

Romanticism has NOT criticised for being_____

• Too subjective

• An opportunity for self-indulgence

• Able to engage with the real world in a new and refreshing way

• The chance for evasion

Levinson argues that the imagination's encounter with nature suppresses the ______ making it a weapon in the class struggle.

Romanticism is criticised to only be relevant to a time and when social change occurs, the works it produces die.

• True

• False

Hartman suggests that Romanticism, in the case of Wordsworth, expresses a desire for immunity from pain and loss.

• True

• False

The Romantic is always strongly aware that the "realm of the ideal" may ______

Eldridge presents a conflict resident for all Romantics, between ....

• present knowledge and past experiences

• Class structures

• the irrepudiable and the unrecognizable

• Religious and the scientific

According to Eldridge, both Romantics and modern writers live out a standing fear of _____.