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

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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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  • 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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  • 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).

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 1878 Dowden Stud. Lit. 25 A leader of the Romantic movement.
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