Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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"There is no period work, no costume effects, none of the pageantry and formal tableaus which the romantic novel used. When we read his books we feel that they are not daydreams, but the way life was."
There is a "realism of the whole which aims at the truth of history as the imaginative artist conceives it to be, which tries to present things as they are in their true relationships." Whenever the romantic convention enters the books, it cheapens their contents.
In the 17th Century a gifted French expatriate, Claude Lorrain, discovered a landscape of great melancholy possibilities in the Ruins of Rome. Ever since then, few romantic artists on conventional pilgrimage to Italy have failed to turn out one or more studies in the grandeur of ancient Rome's...
But this same M. Debussy was a hardworking, painstaking composer and in music a revolutionist, if not of a very red dye. Hating the emotionalism of Wagner and other romantic composers, he created a musical language of his own, painted tone-pictures of impressions from nature, conceived a whole new...
Chauncey B. Tinker, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry here and Sterling Professor of English Literature at Yale, lectures tonight in "Reynolds Romantic Tendencies" at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall.