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3641959 No.3641959 [Reply] [Original]

>tfw not a qt3.14 romanticist poet

>> No.3641965

“Tell me, enigmatic man, which do you love best, your father,
mother, sister, brother?
“I have no father, mother, sister, brother.”
“Friends?”
“There’s a word whose meaning eludes me.”
“Your country?”
“Wherever that may be.”
“Beauty?”
“I would happily love her if she were a goddess and im
-
mortal.”
“Money?”
“I despise, as you despise God.”
“Well, remarkable stranger, what do you love?”
“I love the clouds... the clouds passing... there... away over
there... the marvellous clouds!”

Those fking clouds.

>> No.3641970
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3641970

Shelley regularly read for sixteen hours a day while studying at Oxford. If people on here even managed an eighth of that we might avoid threads like this.

>> No.3641974
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3641974

Why are romantic poets so qt?

>> No.3641981

what's the deal with romanticism? why is it so influential?

>> No.3641983

>>3641970
>read for sixteen hours a day
Sickly escapist scum.

>> No.3641985

>>3641970
sounds like he needs to check his privilege. the boy must have had zero responsibilities.

>> No.3641996
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3641996

>>3641981

Well, for one thing it memorably crystallized a burgeoning egotism which inevitably arose as the structures which stood inimical to individualism declined in the wake of enlightenment ideals. Romanticism articulated the absolute primacy of the individual consciousness - a notion which has since endured, and thus kept its early proponents relevant.

Also, more importantly, it really is a time of remarkable artistic achievement. I mean,

Byron
Keats
Shelley
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Blake

- all brilliant poets, all writing at once. Not to mention a lesser, but valuable, echelon of writers below them - Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Leigh Hunt, Walter Scott, Polidori, et al.

Kind of astounding.

>> No.3642002

>>3641985

At that time, being able to study at all meant being able to study all the time. Even Byron was occasionally studious, between bouts of buggering choir boys and swimming in the Cam.