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Romance and Reality [from the Knickerbocker]

"Romance and Reality [from the Knickerbocker]." New-York Saturday Press. 23 Jul. 1859: 3.
Type: 
newspaper
Genre: 
poetry
Abstract: 

The first two lines of each stanza present an idealistic question about romance while the second two lines answer that question disappointingly, thus distinguishing the sentimental romanticist from the sobering realist.