Neoclassical Satire and the Romantic School 1780-1830

Romanticism was not only heterogeneous and disunited. It also had to face the counter-movements of the Enlightenment and Augustan Neoclassicism, which were still gaining momentum in the decades around the French Revolution. Neoclassicists regarded Romanticism as a heretical amalgam of dissenting "new schools" threatening the monopoly of the Classical Tradition. Acrimonious debates in aesthetics an...