The Romantics And Us
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59:00Simon shows how the Romantics created the secular cult of national belonging with enormous world consequences. From the music of Chopin to the poetry of Burns, Simon looks at their rediscovery of tradition and myths. (Final)
1:00:00Simon reveals how the Romantics were the first explorers of the unconscious and examines the writings of Victor Hugo, the prints of Piranesi and the works of Coleridge, Wordsworth and Thomas de Quincey.
1:00:00Popular revolt. Our obsession with the self. Modern nationalism. In this series, Simon Schama reveals how these ideas, forged by the Romantics during a century-long revolution in art and culture, still impact our lives today.