The Romantic movement is what Harold Bloom would call “Prometheus Rising,” the man who would defy the gods in Greek mythology, which is also to say, defy the social community. These were artists and intellectuals whose work was inspired by the political dawns of the American and French revolutions, those “terrors” that aligned themselves with the satanic idolatry and blasphemy of self-exaltation and what William Blake would call “vision”—that is, the experienced truth that poetry is often given or heard, and, as such, is prior to and more basic than religion, moral philosophy, or anything else
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