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VICE-PRESIDENTS FELIX E. SCHELLING, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. CENTRAL DIVISION Chairman, FRANK G. HubbarD, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. Secretary, CHARLES BUNDY WILSON, State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Ia. EXECUTIV COUNCIL THE OFFICERS NAMED ABOVE AND J. DOUGLAS BRUCE, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. ARTHUR G. CANFIELD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. ALBERT B. FAUST, Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y. CHARLES MILLS GAYLEY, University of California, Berkeley, Cal. MARION D. LEARNED, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. JOHN L. LOWES, Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. RAYMOND WEEKS, Columbia University, New York, N. Y. EDITORIAL COMMITTEE W. G. HOWARD, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. Philai 340 PUBLICATIONS OF THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA EDITED BY WILLIAM GUILD HOWARD SECRETARY OF THE ASSOCIATION VOL. XXVII, NO. 3 NEW SERIES, VOL. 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Attention is cald to the regulations printed on the third page of this cover. XIV.-ROMANTIC ASPECTS OF THE AGE OF POPE' To our ideas of classicism we have, as a rule, given point and definiteness by contrasting it with its opposite, romanticism; and to make the contrast stronger we usually take extreme cases. This is a perfectly proper, perhaps necessary, proceeding. It is also proper and convenient 1 Since the reading of this paper before the Association last Christmas, Professor W. A. Neilson has publisht his stimulating Essentials of Poetry (Boston, 1912), which treats of many of the matters herein considered. Professor Neilson has phrased admirably a number of the ideas that I have tried to present, as well as a great many that I have not toucht on. Yet, as both his purpose and method are different from mine, it has seemed best not to change what I had written. My concern is not to define romanticism or classicism but to study the tastes and interests of the average man of the early eighteenth century and to show that many of the things that have been thought to indicate "the beginnings of romanticism" are to be found in the most classical writers. Professor Neilson's illuminating definitions, e. g., "Classicism is the tendency characterized by the predominance of reason over < imagination and the sense of fact,” should help in the formation of correct ideas of the period. The word "predominance" is particularly helpful. |