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.
1813Edin. Rev. Oct. 206 The poetry of the Spanish peninsula seems to have been more
romantic and less subject to classical bondage than that of any other part of Europe.
1812 H. C. Robinson Jrnl. 19 May in E. J. Morley Henry Crabb Robinson on Bks. (1938)
I. 84 We proceeded to Coleridge's first lecture. . . He spoke of religion, the spirit
of chivalry,..and a classification of poetry into ancient and romantic.