Radical Romanticism,” the fifth series of discussions with Denis Sweet, a former teacher at Bates College, on Tuesdays, Feb.

To fall in love with someone feels like such a personal and spontaneous process, it can sound strange—and even rather insulting—to suggest that something else (we might call it society or culture) may ...

Romanticism describes the era of the 19th century in which artists and poets strove for individuality and originality instead of conformity. Romantics rejected the traditional aesthetic values of the ...

Alain de Botton is the founder and Chairman of The School of Life. He is the best-selling author of The News: A User's Manual and, most recently, The Course of Love. To fall in love with someone feels ...

NEW YORK — There’s a reason the terms “romantic” and “romanticism” are so often preceded by the adjective “hopeless.” Romantics want to lose their identity in something bigger and deeper. But identity ...

PARIS — With the bloody revolutions of the late 1700s, the mood in Europe was apprehensive and brooding about the future. Perhaps then it’s no surprise that the art from that time has a certain ...