Melancholy of Summer Micro

Little Romantic Sensibility
Micro Format
for moments of contemplation,
impulses of genius

One can think of no dearer place to record one’s poetical observations of nature and feelings of tenderness and melancholy — preoccupations of the 18th-century romantic mind — than these gentle purse- and pocket-sized journals. The romantics viewed the world as a place where delicacy and modesty combine to create perfection, and these journals would certainly have been welcome in the library of any refined Englishwoman who thought deeply on matters relating to aesthetics and emotion. Little books of sensibility are the perfect accessory for those moments of