Friday quiz: a little romance | Michael Tomasky

Okay, we've done modernism, so let's start dabbling over time in some other historical –isms. Today we'll take a look at Romanticism. It's interesting to me that just as I started to type that word, the screen saver on my desktop, which I can see around the edges of this Word document, suddenly shifted from one image to another, producing two vertical shafts of light resembling the intense rays of sunshine that one often sees in Romantic landscape painting. Make of it what you will.

As I...