ALBERT BÉGUIN AND THE ROMANTIC DREAM
ALBERT BÉGUIN AND THE ROMANTIC DREAM

Summary/Abstract: Albert Béguin points out that in the conception of romantic writers, the dream is revealed as a correspondence of all the forces and elements of the universe, functioning on the basis of the principle of universal analogy, which defines the harmonies between things. This "chain of analogies" emphasizes the cohesion force of being in the face of an unlimited, unstable, inhomogeneous universe. Poetry is, in the critic's view, an authentic and revealing manifestation of the human being's aspiration toward beauty, but also an essential access path to the origins of being.

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