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The Range of French Romanticism
Dargan, E. Preston | October 5, 1918 issue

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The article discusses romanticism and French literature. Among the qualities commonly attributed to French Romanticism are the following: Idealism, melancholy, liberalism or a revolt from rules, exoticism and medievalism, the feeling for nature, the predominance of imagination, and subjectivity. To probe these a little, idealism, which begins as "enthusiasm," is not characteristic of the whole movement, and is best illustrated by the poetry of Alphonso Lamartine and, on the intellectual side, by that of poet Alfred Vigny. The latter, however, expresses already a melancholy and bitterness ascribable to the failure of his ideals.

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FRENCH literature; FRENCH prose literature; ROMANTICISM; FRENCH; IDEALISM; MELANCHOLY
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