Some Sources of Romanticism: 5 – Unbridled Romanticism
Isaiah Berlin
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The German Romanticism - What Is It?
I have to convey something which is inexpressible, and i have to use expression. And i know in advance that it won't succeed and cannot succeed. All i can do is to get nearer and nearer some symphatic approach. According to the romantics, what i mean by depth is inexhaustability, unembraceability. In the cases of what might be called ful, but not profound, say, works of art, or even pieces of prose, fiction or philosophy, i can translate into perfectly lucid literal terms. When one says that some somon is a profound writer, or a profound picture, or work of music is profound, it's not very clear what we
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