ABSTRACT
The distinction, between classic and romantic poetry seems to rest fundamentally on the fact that the former knows no other than purely human, actual, and natural motifs; the latter, by contrast, also deploys invented, conventional, and imaginary motifs. Among them belong those stemming from Christian myths, then those of chivalrous, exaggerated, and fantastic principles of honor, and further of the insipid and laughable Christo-Germanic veneration of women, and finally of babbling and moon struck hyperphysical infatuation. Many masterpieces of lyric poetry, in particular some odes of Horace, and several of Goethe's songs have been criticized for lacking proper structure and being full of disconnected thoughts. Just as according to this the subjective.
