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The Romantic Revolution: The Glory, the Tragedy, the Future

Ayn Rand argued that in esthetics Objectivism implies Romanticism. In literature, music, and painting the artists she loved are of the Romantic School. What ideas made Romanticism, which swept Western culture from 1750 to 1850, possible? What were contradictions in those premises limited Romanticism's achievements, often made its works seem inconsistent with reason, and ultimately crippled it? Is a new Romantic movement beginning today? What premises does it require? And what could it mean for the arts, for education and the crucial American sense of life? ABOUT WALTER DONWAY Walter Donway is a poet (Touched By Its Rays) and fiction writer (The Price of Hannah Blake, The Lailly Worm, O Human Child, and Holidays Frightened My Father) who created the imprint Romantic Revolution Books. He has published articles relevant to Objectivist ideas in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Private Practice, Human Events, and Cosmopolitan, and online publications such as www.FinancialSenseOnline.com and www.theatlasphere.com.