| ▲ | ggm 5 hours ago | |
And my point is that it's a label on a cyclical trend. But sure, he wanted to reason about romanticism specifically. He cuts off very early in the new century, and the romanticism presaged a 50year cycle of revolution and revolt against the congress of Vienna. The tide swung back and forth. | ||
| ▲ | coldtea 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
>And my point is that it's a label on a cyclical trend Not so sure about that. Romanticism isn't related to Millinarianism conceptually or otherwise. The former was a re-adoption of a hollistic medieval stance on life and nature. If you mean "some cultural things change every now and then, so a trend changing is nothing new", maybe, but it's a much smaller claim than that we see a rebirt of Romanticism specifically. | ||
| ▲ | defrost 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I'm not convinced Beethoven had contemporary groupies tossing him their muffs. Liszt, however ... | ||