post-Romantic
- a word derived from romantic.
Example Sentences
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Banks was only 21 when they released “Nursery Cryme,” a haunting LP that combines the melodrama of post-romantic classical with esoteric folk-rock.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026
This, incidentally, is what made it so much of Rooney’s own generation – “she’s creating love stories for the post-romantic age”, Fintan O’Toole wrote.
From The Guardian • May 6, 2020
She is post-romantic about post-Napster financial realities for young bands.
From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2015
The discovery of the structures of pre-baroque and medieval music inspired Birtwistle to a way of thinking about music that circumvented the ossified traditions of post-romantic harmony they were being taught in Manchester.
From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2012
The experience recounted in Nausea is one of deep physical and metaphysical horror, well beyond the ennui, already sufficiently sick, that such French post-romantic writers as Baudelaire liked to wallow in.
From Time Magazine Archive
