Word: reaction
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...book is a collection of critical essays on the various schools of literary thought, on some of the prominent waiters and on the noted works of the literature of recent times. The first two essays discuss the Romantic movement in England led by Byron and Shelley, and the subsequent reaction against the passionate individualism of their school. The several essays in which Professor Gates treats the work of single authors are extremely thorough and very apt in expression. The analysis of Poe's employment of terror in his stories is the most striking and effective of Professor Gates's criticisms...
...essential feature of Ruskin's philosophy of art is the affirmation of the influence upon art of moral conditions and the reaction of art itself on moral character. That moral conditions influence the arts is a proposition little doubted now. That the duty of the fine arts is to perfect the morality or ethical state of men is a proposition, however, that has laid Ruskin open to much criticism. History shows that Ruskin was probably mistaken in this respect. Ruskin's philosophy of art in "Modern Painters," will in the main, however, be found entirely sound though overstatements, and even...
...absence of definite knowledge is due to the vague nature of the reform. It was neither a doctrine nor a tangible belief, but rather an impulse of self-emancipation, hampered to some extent by the conservatism of the day. Coming as a reaction from the old Puritan theology, it excited a storm of abuse and persecution as furious as it was undeserved. Theodore Parker, the leader of the party, held views on the interpretation of the Scriptures which would today be considered the reverse of radical; and yet these same views prevented his election to the Phi Beta Kappa...
...lecture given by M. de Regnier, Saturday afternoon, was on "A New School of Poetry, the Decadents and the Symbolists." Poetry in France had been in great peril from the ever rising wave of naturalism and realism, to which all the poets were making concessions. But when the needed reaction came, poetry was thrust aside, and the poets, accepting their solitude, broke apart into groups. This was the situation in 1880 and it was a serious one as it tended to the establishment of a perilous byzantinism. The young poets of 1885 had a peculiar and a strange language. Even...
...Regnier then commented briefly on the work of each of these men, laying considerable stress on the place of the sonnet. In the early eighties followed the reaction of idealism against realism. The new movement was headed by Paul Verlaine, Mallarme, and others. With them slowly arose the new school of poets called "decadents" or symbolists...