Post-romanticism

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title: "Post-romanticism" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["art-movements", "romanticism", "19th-century-classical-music", "20th-century-classical-music", "19th-century-literature"] description: "Cultural movement" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-romanticism" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Post-romanticism or Postromanticism refers to a range of cultural endeavors and attitudes emerging in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, after the period of Romanticism.

In literature

The period of post-romanticism in poetry is defined as the mid-to-late nineteenth century, but includes the much earlier poetry of Letitia Elizabeth Landon and Tennyson.

Notable post-romantic writers

• Herman Melville
• Thomas Carlyle
• Gustave Flaubert

In music

Post-romanticism in music refers to composers who wrote classical symphonies, operas, and songs in transitional style that constituted a blend of late romantic and early modernist musical languages. Arthur Berger described the mysticism of La Jeune France as post-Romanticism rather than neo-Romanticism.

Post-romantic composers created music that used traditional forms combined with advanced harmony. Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji created post-romantic nocturnes that used unconventional harmonic language and Béla Bartók, for example, "in such Strauss-influenced works as Duke Bluebeard's Castle", may be described as having still used "dissonance ['such intervals as fourths and sevenths'] in traditional forms of music for purposes of post-romantic expression, not simply always as an appeal to the primal art of sound".

Other notable post-romantic composers

• Richard Wagner
• Giacomo Puccini
• Richard Strauss
• Gustav Mahler
• Jean Sibelius
• Alexander Scriabin
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
• Modest Mussorgsky
• Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji

References

References

1. Faith Lagay. (August 2006). "Hawthorne's 'Birthmark': Is There a Post-Romantic Lesson for the 'Men of Science'?". [[Virtual Mentor]].
2. Zwierlein, Anne-Julia. (2015). "A history of British poetry: Genres, developments, interpretations". WVT Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier.
3. Richard Bradford, ''A Linguistic History of English Poetry'', New York: Routledge, 1993, p. 134. {{ISBN. 0-415-07057-0.
4. Robert Milder, ''Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine'', New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, p. 41. {{ISBN. 0-19-514232-2
5. Stephen Heath, ''Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary'', Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992, p. 13. {{ISBN. 0-521-31483-6.
6. [[Virgil Thomson]]. ''Virgil Thomson: A Reader: Selected Writings, 1924–1984'', edited by [[Richard Kostelanetz]], New York: Routledge, 2002, p. 268. {{ISBN. 0-415-93795-7.
7. [[Daniel Albright]]. ''Modernism and Music: An Anthology of Sources'', Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004, pp. 243–244. {{ISBN. 0-226-01267-0.
8. [https://www.classicalarchives.com/period/7.html "Period: Late– Post-Romantic"], [[Nolan Gasser]], Classical Archives

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