ENGLISH 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Christabel Rose Coleridge, Biographia Literaria, Lyrical Ballads
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Gotta post at least 10 times to discussion on bcourses. Last wed: broadly situated the romantic period. Sense of new beginning w/ frrev, with the ability to render past history pre-history. Name seems to set apart period/school/style/etc belonging to a certain past. But the identification of supersession--moving beyond the past into the new/modern/real--is itself a romantic gesture :o. Break tw past/now in almost every romantic text - walter scott"s waverley: the romance of his life was ended its real history had now commenced . Literature as its own infinite questioning and as the perpetual positing of its own question, dates from romanticism and as romanticism - the moment of romanticism (moment q was asked) actually more than just an epoch . > any theoretical q of any movement is involved in romanticism in that way. Often works of rom writers prefaced w/ manifesto-like statement of purp, raising some q.
