At 08:01 PM 1/19/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Can you describe what you mean by romantic or "a romantic?" The definitions
>are not universally agreed upon. Among some the terms are merely
>expletives, like "adventurist" or "naive."
a romantic, as i see it, is a person who refers back to a time or place as
having been more wholesome or secure than the time and place they are in at
present.
a rural romantic, it follows, would express in their poetry the country as
being a wholesome place, the country people as being wise if not worldly,
and that our urban ills would be cured if we returned to a rural way of
living.
>
>Sorry, I have some nasty habits, among them the need for sufficient
>precision so that I know what I'm supposed to be talking about.
>
>Mark
hope this clears things up from my end.
komninos
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