Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Romantic School

The name assumed, at the beginning of the nineteenth century, by a number of young poets and critics in Germany, who wished to limit poetry and art to romance. Some twenty-five years later Victor Hugo, Lamartine, and Dumas introduced it into France.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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