The Romantic Agony -

Mario Praz

Meridian Books

1951

505 páginas

16h 50m

ISBN-1: 0

Mario Praz has, in The Romantic Agony, acutely analyzed the effect of the traditions of Byron and De Sade upon poets and painters from 1800 to 1900. It is she analysis of a mood in literature. The mood may have been transient but it was widespread, and it was expressed in dreams of "luxurious cruelties," "fatal women," corpse-passions, and the sinful agonies of delight. Professor Praz has described the whole Romantic literature under one of its most characteristic aspects, that of erotic sensibility