/lit/ - Literature

>>18253172
Romanticism is a naive, purely human, subjective and profane projection of sentimentality onto the natural world. No doubt there is some beauty and significance particularly in some of the earliest works which were still informed consciously or not, by a more traditional framework of objective standards finally allowed to be expressed by the liberated individuality of great souls. However, as the old system dies out and the foundations of the new enlightened philosophies are exposed as vacuous, this 'new' subjective and sentimental expression quite easily gives way to the nihilstic, relativistic, pessimistic art of recent times.
There is a balance to be had between mind and spirit, perhaps some romanticist works hit close to that equilibrium as Europe transitioned from one extreme, that of the spirit, to the other, that of the mind. Classical Greek civilization, still to this day hit closest to a perfect harmonious balance of mind and spirit.

>>17978737
Based if true
And don't let any assblasted christcuck or Tradfag tell you otherwise.