{Classic and Romantic}[29th March 1981]

[Redbook2:182][19810329:1515]{Classic and Romantic}[29^th March 1981]

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We live in a classic age. The great quantity of 'romantic' work – in a more precise sense – at the base of culture shows only that men still yearn for the great romance. But the height – the direction – of our culture is rigidly anti-romantic, so out of touch with even the true nature of romance that there is ignorance of what is actually being done. So when a major work of romantic culture occasionally breaks through, after much doubt and soul-searching by the classic censors, and succeeds with ordinary people, the classics [sic] are left totally mystified by its success. It has come outside their control.

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