Newman's Romantic Sensibility

David J. DeLaura, Professor of English Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

Footnote 4, Introduction, of the author's Hebrew and Hellene in Victorian England: Newman, Arnold, and Pater, which University of Texas Press published in 1969. It appears in the Victorian web with the kind permission of the author, who of course retains copyright.

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John Beer's essay, "Newman and the Romantic Sensibility" (The English Mind: studies in the English Moralists presented to Basil Willey, ed. Hugh Sykes Davies and George Watson, pp. 193-218), is valuable in suggesting the wide extent of Newman's romanticism. Beer demonstrates that Newman escaped the dangers of his own romantic sensibility: "To have remained in Oxford as it was . . . would have been to enclose himself in a walled garden of sensibility: his religious quest for permanence must have died into an aestheticism that circled in its own harmonies, leaving no road open to action."

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