Q or, Heine's Romanticism.
| Publisher | Boston University |
| Publication | Studies in Romanticism |
| Subject | Literature/writing |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0039-3762 |
| Issues per Year | 4 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Published | 2003-09-22 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Author | n/a | Susan Bernstein |
| Person | n/a | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Person | n/a | Friedrich von Schlegel |
The epithets "Grotesque" and "Arabesque" will be found to indicate with sufficient precision the prevalent tenor of the tales here published.... I may ... have desired to preserve, as far as a certain point, a certain unity of design.... I speak of these things here, because I am led to think it is this prevalence of the "Arabesque" in my serious tales, which has induced one or two critics to tax me, in all friendliness, with what they have been pleased to term "Germanism" and gloom.... Let us admit, for the moment, that the "phantasy pieces" now given are Germanic, or what not. Then...
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