The absolute was one of the most significant philosophical concepts in the early nineteenth century, particularly for the German romantics. Its exact meaning and its role within philosophical romanticism remain, however, a highly contested topic among contemporary scholars. In The Romantic Absolute, Dalia Nassar offers an illuminating new assessment of the romantics and their ...(展开全部)

The Early Romantics met resistance from artists and academics alike in part because they defied the conventional wisdom that philosophy and the arts must be kept separate. Indeed, as the literary component of Romanticism has been studied and celebrated in recent years, its philosophical aspect has receded from view. This book, by one of the most respected scholars of the Romant...(展开全部)

The emergence of a new theory of literature in the German Romantic period constituted a decisive turning point in the history of criticism. Prepared by new trends in critical thought during the latter half of the eighteenth century, a view of the literary work and the artistic process developed which diverged sharply from the dominant classicist understanding of aesthetics and ...(展开全部)

Poetry is in fact the general ideal of the Romantics, Frederick Beiser tells us, but only if poetry is understood not just narrowly as poems but more broadly as things made by humans. Seen in this way, poetry becomes a revolutionary ideal that demanded - and still demands - that we tranform not only literature and criticism but all the arts and sciences, that we break down the ...(展开全部)

肯尼斯•克拉克（Kenneth Clark，1903—1983），20世纪杰出的艺术史家、作家、策展人、纪录片主持人。二十七岁即任牛津大学阿什莫尔博物馆馆长，三十岁出任英国国家美术馆馆长，并在第二次世界大战期间，主持了战时艺术家计划，保障了艺术收藏品的安全。战争结束后，曾任牛津大学斯莱德教授。进入20世纪50年代，创作了多部艺术类电视纪录片并担当主持人。1969年，随着首部关于艺术的大型彩色电视纪录片《文明》的面世，成为享誉世界的艺术大师。2014年，英国泰特美术馆举办专题展览纪念肯尼斯•克拉克，称誉其为“具有世纪影响力的英国艺术大家”，并感谢他在“将艺术带给大众”事业上做出的杰出贡献。

What Charles Rosen's celebrated book "The Classical Style" did for music of the Classical period, this new, much-awaited volume brilliantly does for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic period, it captures the spirit that enlivened a generation of composers and musicians, and in doing so it conveys the very sen...(展开全部)

Roberto Bolano (1953-2003) has caught on like a house on fire, and The Romantic Dogs, a bilingual collection of forty-four poems, offers American readers their first chance to encounter this literary phenomenon as a poet: his own first and strongest literary persona. These poems, wide-ranging in forms and length, have appeared in magazines such as Harper's, Threepenny Review, T...(展开全部)

What Charles Rosen's celebrated book "The Classical Style" did for music of the Classical period, this new, much-awaited volume brilliantly does for the Romantic era. An exhilarating exploration of the musical language, forms, and styles of the Romantic period, it captures the spirit that enlivened a generation of composers and musicians, and in doing so it conveys the very sen...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly Using drawings, quizzes and quotes from famous philosphers, de Botton presents a postmodern look at the ups and downs of a love affair. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review "The Romantic Movement sheds light on the nature of relationships . . . The method of telling much and showing little produces a good deal of wit, cogency, and humor."...(展开全部)