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Rousseau and Romanticism

Note 243 — Chapter IX · ROMANTIC MELANCHOLY

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See his sonnet Les Montreurs. This type of Rousseauist is anticipated by “Milord” Bomston in La Nouvelle Héloïse. Rousseau directed the engraver to depict him with “un maintien grave et stoïque sous lequel il cache avec peine une extrême sensibilité.”

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