'Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive' wrote Wordsworth of the early days of the French Revolution, but the storming of the Bastille led, not to freedom, but to the Terror, the dictatorship of Napolean and the dreary bureaucracies of the 19th century.Sir Kenneth Clark traces the progressive disillusionment of the artists of the Romantic movement through the music of Beethoven, the poetry of Byron and the sculpture of Rodin. |
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Title: | The Fallacies of Hope | |
Air Date: | May 11, 1969 | |
Runtime: | 50 min | |
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