Romantics rejected the traditional aesthetic values of the 18th century and classically inspired art. The styles and methods used in the Romantic era are anything but idealized, balanced, ...

Joe Miller Hello readers, and welcome to the inaugural edition of Reason and Romanticism. You may have noticed that Library Lines hasn’t been around the last few weeks. Hallie Herold is now sole ...

Wed., 17 Jan.: Marshall Brown, "Romanticism and Enlightenment," in The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism, Stuart Curran, ed. (1993), pp. 25-47. William Cowper and Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ...

The Romantic movement, which emerged in the late 18th century and persisted throughout the 19th century, is the foundational backdrop for the tortured poet archetype.

His status as a tormented icon of the Romantic movement was confirmed when he took an overdose of arsenic in ... the 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton was thought to have committed suicide to ...

JULES VERNE—Kennefh Allott—Macmillan ($3). This book is a life of Jules Verne (the first in English) and an analysis of the romantic-scientific viewpoint of the 19th Century. Industrious ...

Hair jewelry, as its name suggests, is jewelry carefully crafted and created with real human hair, typically made to memorialize someone recently deceased.