 Interestingly, scholars tend to explain romantic aesthetics not only in terms of its sources (discussed in  §2.1),  but also in terms of its legacy. While there are very interesting and well-established connections between romantic aesthetics and modernism (see Abrams 1971, Frye 1968, Cavell 1979), this section focuses on the attempt to draw a link between the former and postmodernism, a link whose ground is significantly weaker.