Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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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...
...long time no attention was paid to exterior things, to landscapes for instance. Bernardin de Saint Pierre and Chateaubriand were the first to describe landscapes. Then writers and painters came to be allied. Diderot wrote his "Salons"; literature began to borrow some of the methods of art. Changes in the life of races began to be the subject of study...
...intervals we find a man writing of truly personal experience and with sympathy; his theme may be well worn, but the well telling of it makes an old story new, and after all the best things in literature are those written by men who felt deeply, keenly what they wrote...
...court vanished, and the resulting disappointment was one of the main causes of his taking orders from the church. Through the Earl of Pembroke, he obtained a small recforship, and in this period of consecration he was engaged only the last three years of his life, during which he wrote the poems which have made him so well-known...