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...Wait Whitman was a transcendentalist, a mystic, and a romanticist," said Professor Bliss Perry, in the seventh lecture of the series for the Radcliffe Endowment Fund, "A mystic," Professor Perry went on to say, "in that he thought the best way to understand the world was to observe it, not argue about it. He was a transcendentalist through his contact with Emerson, who was his inspiration. He came at the end of one phase of the so-called romantic period. Whitman was also the climax of the period of offensive American assertiveness...
...poet Blake was the first Romanticist, printing his "Poetical Sketches" before Byron, Shelly, or Keats were born. In the "Argument" to his "Marriage of Heaven and Hell" (1790--the book which Swinburne called "about the greatest produced by the Eighteenth Century in the line of high poetry and spiritual speculation"--is the first Free Verse in English. At other times Blake attained a sort of "polyphonic prose...
After a few preliminary remarks concerning the place, origin and history of the symbolist movement, M. de Regnier considered the principal schools of poetry which preceded the "decadent" school, sketching briefly the history of French poetry from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the romanticist movement made itself felt...
...half-courses are to be given next year. A number of others have been very much changed and a few courses given hitherto are to be omitted. Among the most important of the new courses are: French 7 and 7, two half-courses on Victor Hugo and the Romanticist movement, to be given by Assistant Professor de Sumichrast; German 5a, a half-course on the literature of the nineteenth century, to be given by Dr. Nichols; History 16, a course on the constitutional and political history of Germany (1356-1897), to be given by Professor Hart; three new courses...
...greatest regard for truth, and desire for poetic expression, he succeeds in picturing nature in language both accurate and poetic. M. Sully-Prudhomme produced psychological studies of character which, though they are true to life, show a depth of power and feeling equal to that of the romanticist. The school of which these men are the leaders is a living proof that the scientific movement on French poetry has been a good...