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...premiere of the Violin Concerto was also coolly received. It was not a display piece and Brahms, who conducted, supplied a diversion by going on stage with his suspenders unfastened. All his life Brahms suffered from the critics who tried to classify him and failed. He was an ardent romanticist, yet he adhered unfashionably to established musical forms. The world in his time was swayed by the amazing music-dreams of revolutionary Richard Wagner. Brahms never wrote for the stage, never for theatric effect...
...garishly entertaining show. Says Author Brinig, through one of his characters: "It occurs to me that a writer ought to have both vegetables and flowers in his books. He ought to have everything in his books. The old idea of being one thing at a time, a romanticist or a realist, hardly fits in with the times...
...after long illness; in Cambridge, Mass. Hating modernism, romanticism, the "Machine Age," he went back to the Greek and Roman classics for an austere doctrine which, with Princeton's Paul Elmer More, he fervently preached. In his lectures he loved to excoriate Jean Jacques Rousseau, No. 1 French romanticist; two years ago his students ran lotteries based on the number of writers Professor Babbitt mentioned in a 60-min. lecture (TIME, March...
...classicism, romanticism, symbolism, and the like should be discouraged. They are useful only for classifications of the past and have no utility in the present except to declare what one is not. It would be rediculous for a man to set out, now, to become a classicist or a romanticist. All can do is to try to think clearly to know one's feelings, and to use the right words in the right order...
...sympathetic to only a few English poems of the Romantic Movement. Be prefers the short ones, and a few pieces of Wordsworth. Keats, he showed, was attaining a higher criterion for poetical values. Be indicated passages in Keat's letters, which more than anything else, show this romanticist to have outgrown the pulpit type of poetry. Mr. Eliot differed with Keats on the latter's pronouncement that Beauty is Truth and vice versa. "No one will deny that much truth is ugly," he said...