/lit/ - Literature

>>18253172
Read Mario Praz. He identified four Romantic movements in history:

>The Dionysiac movement of 6th century BC
A revolt of worldly ideals against the solar divinities of the Dorians of mystical and chthonic nature.

>The tragedies of Euripides, dialogues of Plato and religious revolution of Paul
A revolt of worldly ideals against the Dionysiac movement into a moral ascetic.

>The chivalric romances of the High Middle Ages
A revolt of worldly ideals against the ascetic and spiritual ideals of the former movement into a rational enlightenment.

>The modern Romantic movement
A revolt of worldly ideals against the enlightenment and rationalism of the former movement, which has become associated with the magical and the supernatural.

Romanticism with Praz, evidently, is any revolution of worldly ideals against a former movement that has become "classical" (a Romantic movement can eventually become classical, in other words), an interruption of an established equilibrium. We wrongly call the latest Romantic movement as the only appearance of Romanticism in history and we wrongly associate the modern Romantic movement with disorderly imagination because it is new.