Romantic Literary Criticism - Paul A. Cantor (essay date 1989)
Paul A. Cantor (essay date 1989)
SOURCE: Cantor, Paul A. “Stoning the Romance: The Ideological Critique of Nineteenth-Century Literature.” South Atlantic Quarterly 88, no. 3 (summer 1989): 705-20.
[In the following essay, Cantor summarizes current critiques of Romanticism and the aesthetic theories associated with it, maintaining that such attacks are misguided and biased.]
And the poets lie too much.
—Zarathustra
I regret that limitations of space prevent me from discussing the essays on which I have been asked to comment in any detail, thus forcing me to deal with them at a level of generality which cannot do justice to the wealth of specific observations they contain. I will be forced to concentrate on what I see as the distinctive trend behind these essays, and even here I will be reduced to oversimplifying the positions they richly and diversely articulate. I am sure that the authors do not think of...
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