Extracted from an essay penned at Westfield College, NW3 in the early 1980s
Whereas Classical literature
leans towards restraint, objectivity,
Romantic literature
tends towards excess,
subjectivity and emotionalism.
However, sensitivity, imagination
and unbridled passion
unless tempered by those
Classical qualities
so necessary to any first-rate
work of art...
a sense of harmony,
and an understanding,
not only of the darkest recesses...
but human nature at large,
can degenerate into
melodrama and megalomania...
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