Abstract

The aim of these investigations has been to trace the native origins of the Romantic movement of the nineteenth century, this self-conscious opposition to neo-classicism; to follow its course until it joins the general European movement; and in so doing to estimate the quantity and quality of the Romantic products of the period under survey. The field of study covers approximately the whole of the eighteenth century, from the time when the accession of a Bourbon prince encouraged the already growing tendency to adopt French habits, until the late decades when Spanish romanticism had begun to unite itself with the movement abroad. - Preface.