idealist-impressionists

Updated: July 8, 2026

But the eighteenth century had slipped into a fault which was at least as fatal as that of the Idealist-Impressionists of the seventeenth, or as that of the Realist-Impressionists of our own time. The former neglected universality in their hunt after personal conceits; the latter neglect it in the endeavour to add nothing to rigidly elaborated personal sensation.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)