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D U R I N G certain epochs of history, separated from one another, as a rule, by long stretches of time, there is to be observed the phenomenon of a sudden upsurge of lyricism and of man's unconscious thought (which are indivisible). The mechanism of such outbreaks is as yet obscure; yet we can say, with reasonable certainty, that they accompany periods of change in the direction of society, periods of revolution. Thus, during the Renais sance, we see not only the birth of the incomparable richness of Italian painting, but also, a little later, the concerted appearance of all the Elizabethan dramatists and poets, a sudden astonishing flowering of passion and the word. During the time of the French Revolution, the industrial revolution and the appearance of the victorious bourgeoisie on the scene of history, we see the formation in Germany of the great Romantic move ment, and in England, a lesser reflection, of the Lakeland school of poets and their successors. (while today, perhaps, We see the appearance of the surrealist move ment in France; and in England.
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D U R I N G certain epochs of history, separated from one another, as a rule, by long stretches of time, there is to be observed the phenomenon of a sudden upsurge of lyricism and of man's unconscious thought (which are indivisible). The mechanism of such outbreaks is as yet obscure; yet we can say, with reasonable certainty, that they accompany periods of change in the direction of society, periods of revolution. Thus, during the Renais sance, we see not only the birth of the incomparable richness of Italian painting, but also, a little later, the concerted appearance of all the Elizabethan dramatists and poets, a sudden astonishing flowering of passion and the word. During the time of the French Revolution, the industrial revolution and the appearance of the victorious bourgeoisie on the scene of history, we see the formation in Germany of the great Romantic move ment, and in England, a lesser reflection, of the Lakeland school of poets and their successors. (while today, perhaps, We see the appearance of the surrealist move ment in France; and in England.
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