Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!! The Romantics? who prove very clearly that the song is very seldom the work, that is to say, the idea sung and intended by the singer.
For I is smeone else. If brass wakes up a trumpet, it is not its fault. To me this is obvious: I witness the unfolding of my own thought: I watch it, I listen to it..."

Arthur Rimbaud, Letter to Paul Demeny, 1871