"What is the real business of the critic?", Charles Rosen asks of George Bernard Shaw in one of his essays. It is a question he answers throughout this collection as he demonstrates and analyzes various critical approaches. In writing about the Romantic poets Lord Byron, William Wordsworth, William Cowper, and Friedrich Holderlin, Rosen examines the kind of criticism which attempts to uncover concealed code. He investigates the relationship between Romantic aesthetic theory and artworks, and explores the way Romantic art criticism has been practiced by critics from Friedrich Sclegel to Walter Benjamin. In essays on Honore de Balzac, Robert Schumann, Gustave Flaubert, and others, Rosen highlights the intersections between Romantic art and music; the artist's separation of life and artistic representations of it; and the significance of the established text.
- ISBN10 0674779517
- ISBN13 9780674779518
- Publish Date 15 September 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 25 June 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 288
- Language English