Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo - B. Brant Bynum (essay date 1993)
B. Brant Bynum (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: “Romanticism, Imagination, and Bécquer,” and “The Ways of the Imagination,” in The Romantic Imagination in the Works of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, University of North Carolina Department of Romance Languages, 1993, pp. 9-22, 71–122.
[In the following excerpts, Bynum presents an overview of Bécquer's writing in the context of the philosophical and aesthetic orientation of European Romanticism and then explains Bécquer's view of the imagination's significance.]
There are words of a superficially romantic character in which the imagination is used simply to provide a holiday from reality. But the true romantic fancy constitutes a valid mode of perception, perhaps even of thought.
Alan Menhennet, The Romantic Movement
The complete literary production of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer is the brilliant result of a coherently elaborated world view that...
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