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Romances paint at full length people's wooings,He would have written sonnets all his life?
— Romance
Romances paint at full length people's wooings,He would have written sonnets all his life?
In the modern world, the Romantics were the last major cultural movement to assert the "truth of the imagination," defending art as a way of knowing the world that equalled or surpassed scientific reason. In their resistance to what Blake called "Satan's Mathematik Holiness," their goal was not to reject science but to enlarge it. ...the Romantics sought to understand by augmentation.
Parent of golden dreams, Romance!Thy votive train of girls and boys.
He loved the twilight that surroundsThe dusk of centuries and of song.
Romance is the poetry of literature.
Lady of the Mere,Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.
