Fernando Guimarães - Caminhos - Barroco, Romantismo e Modernidade

«When considering the evolution of literary creation, we can bear in mind the way in which the transition took place from rhetorical theorizing, which reached a high point with the Baroque, to a theory of art, or aesthetics, which developed throughout the 18th and 19th centuries with philosophers such as Kant and, above all, with poets or theorists — let us remember in Germany the group that gathered around the magazine Athaeneum or, in England, S. T. Coleridge with his Biographia Literaria — who paved the way for Romanticism, in which a decisive modernity.»