Romanticism

You're right.

He's writing right at the end of the Enlightenment, at the beginning of pre-Romanticism.

But reason is on the one hand a noble faculty of analysis and it sees through the lies of things.

But Given the intrinsic horror of what exists, according to Leopardi, reason

Nothing too outside the realm of the ordinary if you've read a lot of romance or a lot of romantic ballads.

Probably the most famous one from the collection is entitled Romanticism.

And it's just like a story about this young woman who sees her dead lover.

and is kind of horrified and shocked and over the moon about this and she's trying to like vocalize what it is this is making her feel and then in the poem you kind of have like society as the backdrop of rationalists being like you're making that up not real he's probably not

So one of the reasons that Elizabeth Browning is so important is that she, with Tennyson, who is younger than her, but because he's a young man and has had education, hasn't been ill and so on, develops earlier.

So almost in parallel, despite their different ages, Elizabeth and Tennyson help or steer or make British poetry move from Romanticism into Victorian verse.

In Victorian verse, the difference between post-Romantic and Romantic poetry is... roughly speaking, in the 19th century, a difference which has precisely to do with inhabitedness, a kind of demystification.

So the rantics are all sort of awe and inspiration and radicals and out on the cutting edge, out on the cutting edge in terms of art as well as in terms of ideas, you know, poetry is a kind of something you reach towards and Tennyson and Barrett Browning are so different.

The immediate needs of the heart were set over against reason.

Under many successive forms, Romanticism prevailed in literature, effecting the rebirth of human fancy after the long labor of intellect.

The Goal of Philosophy Philosophic young Germany had set itself an ambitious program.

kant indeed had cleared the ground for them but his warnings that an eagle cannot soar beyond the atmosphere which supports it were disregarded the philosophy of kant himself was felt by the successors to be lacking in the idea of totality in the conception of a whole his division of existence into appearance and reality seemed to indicate a certain lack of finish in his philosophy and they set themselves to explore the route of reality which to kant seemed undiscoverable but in which the sensuous and supersensuous worlds are united and from which they have emerged this task became and remained the grand problem of philosophy for a whole generation of thinkers All externality, isolation, and division were to disappear.

The point of importance is that he was the first to recognize the independence of religion, to see in it a legitimate and natural form of human activity, which exists not for the sake of knowledge or of morality, but for its own sake and on its own account.

Here, though Hegel took a different view, Schleiermacher is one in spirit with a Romantic school.

Indeed, he may be said to have drawn the logical conclusions of Romanticism.

The independence and originality of religion is the necessary consequence of a philosophy which set itself against the unbalanced intellectualism of the Enlightenment.