adjective
- relating to or characteristic of the period in art, literature, or music that followed Romanticism
Usage: literary criticism; art history
Examples
- The postromantic poets rejected the emotional excess of their predecessors.
- His postromantic paintings showed a return to classical restraint.
- The composer’s postromantic symphony marked a departure from earlier passionate works.
- Critics debated whether the novel was truly postromantic or merely late Romantic.
- The postromantic movement emphasized form over feeling.
- Art historians place this sculpture in the postromantic period.