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.
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.