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any words in fact :p
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any words in fact :p
Nature
Romantic.
Wagner
Wordsworth.
Prometheus
Byron
Gothic.
emotion
or
aestheticism
Verklärung.
Youth
Subjective
Revolution
Blake
Sublime
Spirit.
paintings
Unrealistic
Bayreuth
I like romantic poems more than realist poems, as the former are somewhat the descendants of Milton (not sure if what I know is correct).
BUT
Realism rules the world of novels; the best novels are realist novels.
What about Moby Dick and Don Quixote, arguably one of the best novels ever written and one considered by many to be the greatest of all time, respectively. What about Ulysses? Heck, what about Dickens? I wouldn't exactly call his plots realistic. I guess it just depends on what one considers realistic; I've read very few novels that I'd consider realistic.
Anyways...
Thomas Pynchon
Dickens is realist, isn't it?
stlukesguild: Bayreuth
Alexander III: damned esoteric bastard.
On a different note, should we up the ante and make it not one, but two words, which when combined form an idea or image, which recall the Romantic movement?
Tristan und Isolde :D
What about Lawrence Sterne? Franz Kafka? Hermann Hesse? Italo Calvino? Mikhail Bulgakov? etc... There are many novels... many of the finest that do not fall within the "realist" tradition.
It's in the gate formation of "Realism," but that's mostly because it was the era that came after Romanticism, which was decidedly unrealistic in comparison, with it's fixation on the supernatural. Plus, realism is more a name that came about because of the characters and settings--they were real, often gritty. I still contend the plots of Dickens are often outrageous.
Dickens style is formal realism though, but the pinnacle of the realist tradition in English is Henry James.
Enlightenment
dreams
Coleridge
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!