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Post-romanticism#Post-Romanticism in music

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Post-romanticism or Postromanticism refers to a range of cultural endeavors and attitudes emerging in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, after the period of Romanticism.

In literature

The period of post-romanticism in poetry is defined as the mid-to-late nineteenth century,{{cite journal|url=https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/hawthornes-birthmark-there-post-romantic-lesson-men-science/2006-08|title=Hawthorne's 'Birthmark': Is There a Post-Romantic Lesson for the 'Men of Science'?|author=Faith Lagay|journal=Virtual Mentor|volume=8|number=8|pages=541–544|date=August 2006|doi= 10.1001/virtualmentor.2006.8.8.mhum1-0608|url-access=subscription}} but includes the much earlier poetry of Letitia Elizabeth LandonSybille Baumbach, {{ill|Birgit Neumann|de|Birgit Neumann (Anglistin)}}, {{ill|Ansgar Nünning|de}} (eds). A History of British Poetry, Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier 2015. {{ISBN|978-3-86821-578-6}}. Section 19: "Poetic Genres in the Victorian Age I: Letitia Elizabeth Landon's and Alfred Lord Tennyson's Post-Romantic Verse Narratives" by {{ill|Anne-Julia Zwierlein|de}}. and Tennyson.Richard Bradford, A Linguistic History of English Poetry, New York: Routledge, 1993, p. 134. {{ISBN|0-415-07057-0}}.

= Notable post-romantic writers =

  • Herman MelvilleRobert Milder, Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 41. {{ISBN|0-19-514232-2}}
  • Thomas Carlyle
  • Gustave FlaubertStephen Heath, Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992, p. 13. {{ISBN|0-521-31483-6}}.

In music

Post-romanticism in music refers to composers who wrote classical symphonies, operas, and songs in transitional style that constituted a blend of late romantic and early modernist musical languages.

Arthur Berger described the mysticism of La Jeune France as post-Romanticism rather than neo-Romanticism.Virgil Thomson. Virgil Thomson: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924–1984, edited by Richard Kostelanetz, New York: Routledge, 2002, p. 268. {{ISBN|0-415-93795-7}}.

Post-romantic composers created music that used traditional forms combined with advanced harmony. Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji created post-romantic nocturnes that used unconventional harmonic language and Béla Bartók, for example, "in such Strauss-influenced works as Duke Bluebeard's Castle", may be described as having still used "dissonance ['such intervals as fourths and sevenths'] in traditional forms of music for purposes of post-romantic expression, not simply always as an appeal to the primal art of sound".Daniel Albright. Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, pp. 243–244. {{ISBN|0-226-01267-0}}.

Other notable post-romantic composers

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