Peter Batten muses on the age of Romanticism…

“Nothing to be done” says one of the tramps in Samuel Beckett’s play ‘Waiting for Godot’. Day after day they wait and hope that Godot will appear. (As I type this, my computer underlines Godot in red to tell me that it does not recognise this name. Am I sure this is correct?)

Over 200 years ago European culture entered the age of Romanticism. Despite many developments and changes, I believe it remains in that era. In Literature and Art one of the fundamental themes of Romanticism is the quest for meaning. When will Godot turn up to give meaning to our lives, to explain what our human experience has been about?
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