Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Romantic movement became too saccharine, it was dispatched from the world with some promptness. It takes a genius to be convincingly romantic. The nineteenth century gave birth to Tennyson, Keats, Shelley and a few others, but as the years wore on these men dies, and the century, full...
The war hurried this change. the nations looked out over the barren world with the sad face of disillusion. God, if there was a God, no longer was in His Heaven, and nothing was right with the world. Literature was not slow to sense this change. A new school grew...
The Unholy Garden (United Artists). Ronald Colman is the cinemactor who exemplifies romantic savoir faire. His admirers are pleased to note that no situation causes him to lose his deliberated calm, his air of graceful self-sufficiency. Colman's qualifications, together with Estelle Taylor's expert impersonation of a lush...
This pleasantly written romantic melodrama tells the story of the rise (but not the inevitable fall) of Esteban Perez, hard-riding soldado of a Central American republic which Author La Farge calls "Alturas."
With this bleak world before them Wordsworth and Coleridge began the Lyrical Ballads. To case the bitterness in their hearts one wrote about romantic things in a wordly way, and the other wrote upon wordly things in a romantic way. The Romantic movement gave birth to famous men, great verse...