seignement a pour objet de preparer cette
definition meme. Nous la trouverons ou elle doit etre, a la fin du cours
et non pas a debut.--_F. Brunetiere: "Classiques et Romantiques, Etudes
Critiques," _Tome III, p. 296.

[2] Was war aber dis romantische Schule in Deutschland? Sie war nichts
anders als die Wiedererweckung der Poesie des Mittelalters, wie sie sich
in dessen Liedern, Bild- und Bauwerken, in Kunst und Leben, manifestiert
hatte.--_Die romanticsche Schule (Cotta edition)_, p. 158.

[3] "The Romantic School" (Fleishman's translation), p. 13.

[4] Un classique est tout artiste a l'ecole de qui nous pouvons nous
mettre sans craindre que ses lecons on ses exemples nous fourvoient. Ou
encore, c'est celui qui possede . . . des qualites dont l'imitation, si
elle ne peut pas faire de bien, ne peut pas non plus faire de mal.--_F.
Brunetiere, "Etudes Critiques,"_ Tome III, p. 300.

[5] Mr. Perry thinks that one of the first instances of the use of the
word _romantic _is by the diarist Evelyn in 1654: "There is also, on the
side of this horrid alp, a very romantic seat."--_English Literature in
the Eighteenth Century, by Thomas Sergeant Perry, _p. 148, _note_.

[6] "Romanticism," _Macmillan's Magazine_, Vol. XXXV.

[7] The Odyssey has been explained throughout in an allegorical sense.
The episode of Circe, at least, lends itself obviously to such
interpretation. Circe's cup has become a metaphor for sensual
intoxication, transforming men into beasts; Milton, in "Comus," regards
himself as Homer's continuator, enforcing a lesson of temperance in
Puritan times hardly more consciously than the old Ionian Greek in times
which have no other record than his poem.

[8] "Racine et Shakespeare, Etudes en Romantisme" (1823), p. 32, ed. of
Michel Levy Freres, 1954. Such would also seem to be the view maintained
by M. Emile Deschanel, whose book "Le Romantisme des Classiques" (Paris,
1883) is reviewed by M. Brunetiere in an article already several times
quoted. "Tous les classiques," according to M. Deschanel--at least, so
says his reviewer--"ont jadis commence par etre des romantiques." And
again: "Un _romantique_ seraut tout simplement un classique en route pour
parvenir; et, reciproquement, un classique ne serait de plus qu'un
romantique arrive."

[9] "Classic and Romantic," Vol. LVII.

[10] See Schiller's "Ueber naive and sentimentalische Dichtung."

[11] Le mot de romantisme, apres cinquante ans et plus de discu