2016/01/01 by Bénédicte Coste · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Cultural History and Identity Formation #Philippine History and Culture #European Cultural and National Identity
paper · doi:10.4000/erea.5609
openalex publication_date 2016/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02
Arthur Symons’s The Romantic Movement in English Poetry (1909) has elicited scant discussion. Part dictionary of British authors born before 1800, part series of portraits of canonical Romantic poets, The Romantic Movement remains perplexing with its unclear purpose and ungainly format. This article argues that Symons’s monograph should be approached in the turn of the century debate on the definition and value of British Romanticism. As opposed to T. E. Hulme’s ‘Romanticism and Classicism’ (1912?), itself indebted to Pierre Lasserre’s Le Romantisme français. Essai sur la révolution dans les sentiments et dans les idées au XIXe siècle (1907), Symons’s study appears as a defence of the romantic aesthetics and fin the siècle cosmopolitanism against Lasserre’s and Hulme’s emphases on nationalism and Classicism.