To Mrs Reynolds' Cat

The Problem with Defining Romanticism

“When the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood turned themselves into a school, they knew exactly how they wanted to challenge received notions about pictorial representation: the Imagists published a manifesto of sorts in Blast that represented an agreed line of attack.

The British Romantics could not have done this. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats never met in the same place and, had they done so, would probably have fallen out immediately.”

-Romanticism, 3rd Edition, Blackwell