1938Oxf. Compan. Mus. 810/1 By the `Romantic School' in music is meant the group of
active spirits in that movement which began in Germany with Weber (born 1786). . .
Or it can be carried back as far as Schubert (born 1797) and Beethoven (born 1770).
1937 D. Bush Mythology & Romantic Trad. in Eng; Poetry p. xiii, The effect of both
the romantic and the industrial movements was to make the artist, if not an anti-social
figure, at any rate an isolated one.
1930 W. Empson Seven Types of Ambiguity i. 27 Before the Romantic Revival the possibilities
of not growing up had never been exploited so far as to become a subject for popular
anxiety.
1908 P. E. More Shelburne Ess. 5th Ser. 119 Like Friedrich Schlegel, he indulges in
the romantic irony of smiling down upon himself and walking through life like a Doppelgänger.
1833 W. Maginn in Fraser's Mag. VIII. 64 `The noticeable man [sc. Coleridge] with
large grey eyes'--the worthy old Platonist--the founder of the romantic school of
poetry.