Since its first publication in February 1897 Herford’s The Age of Wordsworth has remained and continues to remain a basic book on European Romanticism in general and the English Romanticism in particular. The second edition was printed in the same year a few months later, in November 1897, and the third edition (revised) was brought out in the year 1899. Since then the book has been reprinted many times, and that is a standing testimony to the immense ...
