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Romanticism was most successful in lyric poetry; naturally it was least so on the stage. Classic tragedy was dead. Shakespeare and Schiller were used as models. Mme. de Stael wrote "L'Allemagne," Stendhal wrote "Racine et Shakespeare." Victor Hugo in his "Preface de Cromwell" defined the drama as a mixture of the tragic and the comic with an historic stage setting and with out the three unities. But these are not the real signs of the romantic drama. In fact there was a style of play which was increasing in popular favor as tragedy declined; this was the melodrama. Romantic...
...Musset of eighteen, proud and impertinent, was the author of his "Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie," published in 1830. But he was only an untrained schoolboy when he wrote his "Cantique Romantique...
...Contes d'Espagne et d'Italie" were very successful; they were admired for their brightness and their gaiety, and because from one end to the other they were bursting with youth. In his "Spectacle dans un Fauteuil" we find him in the middle of his career; and here appears the sadness of his nature...
References: Pol. Sci. Qu., VIII, pp. 426, et. seq.; Seligman's "Essays in Taxation," p. 212; Forum, XXIII, pp. 259, et seq.; No. Am. Rev., Vol. 164; Amer. Econ...
March 16.- L' Histoire. Augustin Thierry et Michelet. Conclusion...