Some Sources of Romanticism: 5 – Unbridled Romanticism
Isaiah Berlin
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The Purpose of Lucinda Is to Break Down Conventions
lucinda was a ponographic novel of the fourth order. All its physical descriptions were described as allegorical. Everything in ity was described simply as a great hymn and sermon to spiritual freedom of man freed from shackles of false convention. streemar attended, on the wole to retreat from this position. Once you have constructed a work of art, abandon it. Because once it is constructed, it's there. It's done for. It's yesterday's calendar, last year's calendar. Glimpses, ments, intimations, mystical illumination that is the only way to seize reality. The potential is more real than the actual. What is made is dead
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