More Ramblings on Romanticism

[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?

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[d-c-m.livejournal.com]

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?
No. :)