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Romantic art (n.) finds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a joy in submission, a bliss in grief, a rapture in suffering, even a delight in agony — its expression is smiling through tears.

Romantic art (n.) holds ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠body and spirit not severed but so slack and loose that each keeps its independence while neither is there without the other.

Romantic art (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠born from a divorce: once spirit withdraws into itself, body, nature and the inner life become free of one another and can each be worked by art.

Romantic art (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the art of the Christian era, no longer the highest vision of the absolute, and so free to give itself over to the adventures of fantasy and the actions of particular men.

Romantic art (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠spirit taking flight out of externality back into itself: its content demands more than any body can supply, so the shape becomes indifferent.

Romantic art (n.) ends ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠with absolute subjective personality moving free in itself, uniting with nothing objective, and bringing the negative side of this dissolution to consciousness in comic humour.