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Excerpt from Grillparzer's Attitude Toward Romanticism: A Dissertation Grillparzer's opposition to the novergnd the folk-song, forms Of composition which enjoyed special favor among the romanticists, may also be traced largely to his love for artistic form in poetry. The popularity of the novel among romantic writers was largely due to the fact that it combined all the elements of poetry - epic, lyric, and dramatic. In the Brief fiber den Roman Friedrich Schlegel states: Es muss Ihnen nach meiner Ansicht einleuchtend sein, dass und war'um ich fodre, alle Poesie solle romantisch sein; den Roman aber, insofem er eine besondere Gattung sein will, verabscheue Ja ich kann mir einen Roman kaum anders denken als gemischt aus Erzahlung, Gesang und andern F This mixed nature of the novel was, as has been pointed out, enough in itself to condemn it in Grillparzer's eyes as a form Of art. As a matter Of fact he con sidered the novel to be a genre midway between prose and poetry, and therefore as not belonging to the highest kind of art. Besteht namlich die Poesie aus zwei Theilen: Poesie def-ahffas sung und Poesie der Darstellung; der Roman ist deshalb auch nur hochstens halbe Poesie (xv, In conversation with F olgar3 he expressed himself even more strongly on this subject: Mich schauert immer, he says, wenn ich daran denke, dass die Italiener den Roman bei sich einftihren. Durch zwei Jahrhunderte behalfen sie sich, freilich auf eine erb'armliche Art, mit ihren Sonetten; aber es war doch Poesie. Der Roman ist Prosa. Sir Walter Scott's achievements in epic, lyric, and dramatic poetry he considered to be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.