Word: romanticists
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...yesterday's Student Vagabond mention was made merely in passing of the fact that the dramas of Euripides seemed hardly golerable to the German romanticist. A. W. Schlegel. This is particularly interesting when one realizes that Euripides works contain within them the seeds of the movement of which Schlegel was to be the formulator and popularizer. In fact it is impossible to understand the reason for this strange opposition unless one understands at the same time the romantic conception of the Greek and Greek...
...Greek, but at the same time there arose a great interest and almost worship of Greece. It was a fair land of flowers and warm sunshine, of snowy temples and exquisite statues, of liberty and freedom. In this setting lived the Greek, the ideal being to whom the romanticist looked back with yearning as to something very dear which has been lost. Yet it is needless to say that this Greek was as inconsistent with the facts as was the conception of the golden land in which he lived...
With this in mind, the reason for Schlerel's distaste for Euripides easily suggests itself. Euripides dramas marked a change from what was held to be the ideal, they vorged on destroying the rosey illusions of the romanticist and for this very reason they were distasteful...
Varied schools of music will be introduced by the Boston Symphony orchestra in its concert at Sanders Theatre tonight. Beethoven, the classicist, Brahms, the romanticist, and Moussorgsky, the modernist, will be represented on the program...
...Gott zu sagen was ich leids" is expressed in a good many of the moderns is not to be denied and that this expression is often artistic and beautiful is likewise true. But the idea of self expression "to help gave the world" would hardly fit in with true Romanticist idea of the order of things. The ground work of art in human experience does not allow it to become objective in the role of a savior and this also applies to literature. Mr. Lewisolin's true place is that of a defender of Romanticism as he shows...