More Ramblings on Romanticism
Mar. 21st, 2006 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
akashiver"I look into past time as prophets look
Into futurity..."
-- Wordsworth
So, according to Abrams the Romantics believed in the significance of the Moment - an instant of consciousness, or else an ordinary object or event, that suddenly blazes into revelation - often described as an intersection of eternity with time.
It's related to Blake's saving moment - the "Moment in every day that Satan cannot find" which "renovates every moment of the day if rightly placed."
Having read that quote, all I can think of is the devil scrambling round the Romantic period looking for a crystalized unit of time. Is it wrong to find that amusing?
Into futurity..."
-- Wordsworth
So, according to Abrams the Romantics believed in the significance of the Moment - an instant of consciousness, or else an ordinary object or event, that suddenly blazes into revelation - often described as an intersection of eternity with time.
It's related to Blake's saving moment - the "Moment in every day that Satan cannot find" which "renovates every moment of the day if rightly placed."
Having read that quote, all I can think of is the devil scrambling round the Romantic period looking for a crystalized unit of time. Is it wrong to find that amusing?
