romanticistn.adj.

1821 Lady Morgan Italy I. xiv. 291 Her doctrines..gained many disciples, and might still be debated in the academies of Rome, if Adam did not rather belong to the Romanticists than to the Classicists.

1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) II. 248 The Romanticists were the enthusiastic champions of the Ideal against Realism.

1883 G. Grove Dict. Music III. 152/2 We cannot acquit the younger romanticists of the charge of an excessive realism.

1938 Oxf. Compan. Music 810/1 It is..sometimes considered that the classical element..in the work of those two [sc. Schubert and Beethoven] was strong enough to rank them as the last of the Classicists rather than as the first of the Romanticists.

1950 A. Pollitzer in Sat. Rev. Lit. (U.S.) 4 Nov. 42/2 I had gone to New York's large galleries to see the classicists, the romanticists, and the impressionists.

1985 M. Carlson Ital. Shakespearians i. 17 The plays were accompanied by prefaces translated from A. W. Schlegel, the leading German romanticist.

2002 Slavic & E. European Jrnl. 46 76 Shakespeare's Othello (one of the many Shakespeare plays to inspire Romanticists).

1831 C. G. F. Gore Tuileries III. v. 92 Think you I came hither to bandy tirades of sentiment with a puling romanticist?

1890 Belfast News-Let. 5 Apr. 7/2 The student, the poet, the romanticist will still find enough..to enchant him in Venice whilst his days last.

1908 J. Buchan Some 18th Cent. Byways 328 That incurable romanticist, the public, hankers after splashes of colour.

1964 L. Nkosi Rhythm of Violence 50 What is a cynic but a romanticist turned sour?

2006 Washington Times (Nexis) 20 Jan. d8 Like the Disney romanticists, Mr. Malick trusts love at first sight as the emotional power source of his fable.

1831 T. Carlyle in Fraser's Mag. Mar. 130/2 Indeed, to the Romanticist class, in all countries, Schiller is naturally the pattern man and great master.

1838 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 494/2 They have attempted to do in politics what the romanticist theorists of l'art pour l'art have done in literature.

1866 N. Brit. Rev. Mar. 75/2 The ‘enthusiasm of humanity’ would be a mere romanticist dream.

1903 F. C. de Sumichrast in A. Lee tr. T. Gautier Enamels & Cameos 26 ‘Debauch’ is peculiar, but very Romanticist.

1967 Arlington Heights (Illinois) Herald 9 Feb. u4/8 If you have any romanticist blood in your ‘hardened arteries’.., you'll enjoy the show.

1985 D. Lowenthal Past is Foreign Country (1988) v. 199 Awareness of memory stimulated degrees of self-consciousness previously unknown,..usually suffused with Romanticist sensibility.

2009 Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey) (Nexis) 27 Apr. 15 Busoni's [violin] concerto was neither romanticist nor avant-garde for its time, probably causing it to fall between two stools.

1889 W. D. Howells in Harper's Mag. Sept. 641/1 It was once for all accomplished by the romanticists of the romanticistic period.

1919 Ann. Rep. 1917–8 (Minneapolis Public Libr.) 11 The important European periods of painting, beginning with the Italian Renaissance and reaching way into the Romanticistic periods of Europe towards the end of the last century.

1924 Appleton (Wisconsin) Post-Crescent 25 June 4/6 A realistic story of a happy marriage. Not necessarily ‘happy’ in the ‘romanticistic’ sense but in the sense that it comes off successfully.

1998 S. K. Chalup et al. in M. Randall et al. Progr. Artific. Life 85 Riche discussed how rationalistic and romanticistic aesthetic criteria can synergistically be applied to design.