
Some Sources of Romanticism: 5 – Unbridled Romanticism
Isaiah Berlin
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The French Revolution, the Next Event Win, the Next Item
The hero begins by living happily, then something terrible happens. He gets enmeshed in a frightful net which some awful, mysterious force has laid for him. This kind of nightmare is extremely typical of early german romantic writing. The romantics tend to oscillate between extremes of mystical optimism and appalling pessimism. And this gives our writings a peculiar kind of uneven quality. Something must be said, the french revolution had an obvious effect upon the germans. It led,. as a result of he napoleonic wars, in particular, to a vast burst of wounded national feeling. But it is not this aspect of it that i wish to stress. Although the french revolution promised the perfect
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