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  • 1951 F. Kermode Romantic Image vii. 132 The next step forward in Romantic aesthetic
    depended upon a new theory of language.

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  • 1957 G. B. L. Wilson Penguin Dict. Ballet 230 Romantic ballet, used, somewhat narrowly,
    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.

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  • 1959 F. Gadan et al. Dict. Mod. Ballet 329/1 Several other great Romantic dancers
    appeared as La Sylphide.

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  • 1960 Beckson & Ganz Reader's Guide Lit. Terms (1961) 108 Romantic irony occurs when
    a writer builds up a serious emotional tone and then deliberately breaks it and laughs
    at his own solemnity.

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  • 1977 J. A. Cuddon Dict. Lit. Terms 573 Romantic revival, a term loosely applied to
    a movement in European literature (and other arts) during the last quarter of the
    18th c. and the first twenty or thirty years of the 19th c.

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  • 1666 Pepys Diary 13 June, There happened this extraordinary case-one of the most romantique
    that ever I heard of in my life, and could not have believed [etc.].

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  • 1728 F. Hutcheson Ess. Passions i. iv. 94 A Romantick Lover has..no Notion of Life
    without his Mistress, all Virtue and Merit are summed up in his inviolable Fidelity.

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  • 1754 R. Berenger in World 4 July 474, I know several unmarried ladies, who in all
    probability had been. . .good wives and. . .mothers, if their imaginations had not
    been early perverted with the chimerical ideas of romantic love,..upon which principle,
    a footman may as well be the hero as his master.

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  • 1766 Goldsm. Vic. W. i, The girl was. . .called Sophia; so that we had two romantic
    names in the family.

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  • 1769 J. Usher Clio (ed. 2) 82 Innocent and virtuous love. . .inspires us with heroic
    sentiments,..a contempt of life, a boldness for enterprize, chastity, and purity of
    sentiment. . . People whose breasts are dulled with vice, or stupified by nature,
    call this passion romantic love; but when it was the mode, it was the diagnostic of
    a virtuous age.
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