Opium and Romanticism are well-connected subjects, as readers of Romantic poetry often come into contact with literary criticisms about the influence...
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Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end...
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William Blake (redirect from Europe Supported by Africa and America)
4 April 2009 Lorenz Eitner, ed., Neoclassicism and Romanticism, 1750–1850: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (New York: Harper & Row/Icon Editions...
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diagnosed with syphilis as early as 1822, and his remedy, which included mercury and opium, came with serious physical and psychological side effects. In 1834...
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Frédéric Chopin (redirect from Death and funeral of Frédéric Chopin)
was a feature of Romanticism, as a Pole he reflected in his work the very essence of the tragic break in the history of the people and instinctively aspired...
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Franz Schubert (section Life and career)
incidental music, and a large body of piano and chamber music. His major works include the art songs "Erlkönig", "Gretchen am Spinnrade", and "Ave Maria";...
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fashioned his art, according to Newmarch, were nationalism, realism and romanticism. A particular feature of all his later music is its descriptive character—all...
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Novalis (section Birth and early background)
German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an influential figure of Jena Romanticism. Novalis was...
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of John Constable, ed C. R. Leslie 1843 Romanticism & the school of nature : nineteenth-century drawings and paintings from the Karen B. Cohen collection...
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Romantic literature in English (redirect from Romanticism in England and Wales)
Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century. Scholars regard the publishing...
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April 1816 – 1 February 1875) was an English composer, pianist, conductor and music educator. At the age of ten Bennett was admitted to the London Royal...
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Düsseldorf School of painting (category German artist groups and collectives)
Magnus von Wright (1805–1868) Clemens von Zimmermann (1788–1869) German Romanticism Als die zu betrachtende Zeitspanne der Düsseldorfer Malerschule hat sich...
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Daniel Auber (section Life and career)
fʁɑ̃swa ɛspʁi obɛːʁ]; 29 January 1782 – 12 May 1871) was a French composer and director of the Paris Conservatoire. Born into an artistic family, Auber...
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Cyprian Norwid (category Polish male dramatists and playwrights)
increasingly departing from then-prevailing forms and themes found in romanticism and positivism, and the subjects of his works were also often not aligned...
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Carl Loewe (section Life and career)
singer and conductor. In his lifetime, his songs ("Balladen") were well enough known for some to call him the "Schubert of North Germany", and Hugo Wolf...
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S. 5 October] 1836) was a leading Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism. His most familiar work is probably his portrait of Alexander Pushkin...
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August 1876) was a French composer. Félicien David was born in Cadenet, and began to study music at the age of five under his father, whose death when...
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Thomas De Quincey (redirect from An Opium Eater)
1859) was an English writer, essayist, and literary critic, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many scholars suggest that...
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Louise Bertin (section Life and music)
1877) was a French composer and poet. Bertin was born in Les Roches, Essonne, France. Her father, Louis-François Bertin, and also later her brother, were...
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Joseph Joachim (category University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna alumni)
Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and teacher who made an international career, based in Hanover and Berlin. A close collaborator of Johannes Brahms...
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published in 1826 with dedications to Gioacchino Rossini and François-Adrien Boieldieu, and in London his choral work L'inverno was performed in 1827...
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critic, and philosopher who consumed opium to address his health issues. His use of opium in his home country of England, as well as Sicily and Malta,...
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English Opium-Eater (1821). Like that work, the pieces in Suspiria de Profundis are rooted in the visionary experiences of the author's opium addiction...
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (category 18th-century English dramatists and playwrights)
of rheumatic fever and other childhood illnesses. He was treated for these conditions with laudanum, which fostered a lifelong opium addiction. Coleridge...
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English literature (section Precursors of Romanticism)
extreme rationalism and skepticism of the age led naturally to deism and also played a part in bringing the later reaction of romanticism. The Encyclopédie...
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subject, it was somewhat controversial in its day. Cohen's original title, Opium and Hitler, was rejected by the publisher. The inscription on its initial...
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has transformed into Ligeia. The story may be the narrator's opium-induced hallucination, and there is debate whether the story was a satire. After the story's...
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scientific, cultural, religious and philosophical topics, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in the United Kingdom since 1998 and hosted by Melvyn Bragg. Since 2011...
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Symphonie fantastique (category Works about opium)
a gifted artist who has poisoned himself with opium because of his unrequited love for a beautiful and fascinating woman (in real life, the Shakespearean...
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Charles Baudelaire (section Influence and legacy)
second Salon review, gaining additional credibility as an advocate and critic of Romanticism. His continued support of Delacroix as the foremost Romantic artist...
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