to describe the ballets produced during the period of the Romantic revival in literature
in the early nineteenth century, or roughly from 1830-1850, taking as their theme
the odyssey of mortal man in love with some female spirit of the air or water or with
some maiden risen from her tomb. . . The dividing line is a slender one, i.e. in the
romantic ballet the accent is on colour or mood rather than form and design which
is predominant in the classical ballet.