Discuss

[Michael Bailey]

"Romanticism, so often badly defined, is nothing more
than...liberalism in literature." - Victor Hugo, Preface to Hernani


i was gonna say, Markie Mark, plain text please!

a) what is Hernani?
http://www.theatrehistory.com/french/hugo006.html

[in re the final scene where the person drinks the poison from the
hunting horn] To this powerful climax is no doubt largely due the
decisive victory which finally ended the long vexed controversy
between the Classic and Romantic schools of dramatists and novelists.

- thank goodness something finally ended that long vexed controversy

b) i guess the reason i like longer prose works is you get a bigger
sample to decode what words like liberalism and romanticism are meant
to convey.
but, i've always sort of thought, going by the Latin root, liberalism
is supposed to connote a greater freedom,