Episode 68: Romanticism

Nathan Gilmour moderates a discussion with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The strong development of nationalism, a deep love for the imagination, the cult of the artist as solitary individual, and other developments stay with us even today. Among the artists, artifacts, and other stuff discussed are the American and French Revolutions, the Enlightenment, Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Grimm Brothers, Lord Byron, the artist's biography and its importance to the Romantics, and other such things.