Throughout the book, Altieri turns to Yeat's "Leda and the Swan" and Ashbery's "Instruction Manual" for their romantic and
postromantic views of the imagination--they turn out to be largely compatible--as well as their ability to incite the particular kind of philosophizing about art that Altieri's book advocates.
By rejecting the
postromantic Nietzsche, Coanda in fact affirmed, like most romantics, man's right to freedom, which was thus flagrantly encroached upon by Nietzsche's theory of the "eternal return."
Apart from a romantic representative, Salas seems to be a writer deeply involved in new
postromantic trends cultivated both in Europe and Spain around the 1840s.
Some highbrow music critics and publicists regarded this new music, with its emphasis on rhythm, positively: it was thought to represent the 'potential for rejuvenating classical music gone stale in the works of
postromantic epigones'.
What makes this one particularly attractive for Martinu beginners is that it is so readily digestible, with an attractive menu which places the fresh, miniature string serenade, seemingly played by a very small ensemble, like a sorbet between the
postromantic Violin Concerto and the Toccata.
Romanticism and Postromanticism undertakes an ambitious project: to argue for the continuing importance of Romanticism in the arts, even after modernism and postmodernism, and to support the idea of the relevance of Romanticism with an examination of a contemporary group of artists who call themselves "
postromantic."
Moore, The Descent of the Imagination:
Postromantic Culture in the Later Novels of Thomas Hardy (New York: New York Univ.
What Werner von Koppenfels wrote about the "
postromantic" from Asheville, North Carolina, was an expression of respect but not of enthusiasm.
Huppertz's score, of course, is fascinating solely as a piece of dramatic music, with its amalgam of boldly
postromantic, Straussian chromaticism and a highly dissonant "machine-music" idiom more typical of the interwar avant-garde.
This combination of the romantic and
postromantic is evident in a poem like 'The Day I Stopped Writing Poetry'.