Aspects of Various Periods in the Western, Euro-American Tradition

Baroque

Enlightenment

Romanticism

Realism and Naturalism

Symbolism

Modernism

Post-modernism

 

 

"All manner of thing shall be well/ When the tongues of flame are in-folded/ Into the crowned knot of fire/ And the fire and the rose are one." -- T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding