This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic Poetry ever attempted in a single volume. It is both a valuable introduction to the Romantics and an influential work of literary criticism. The perspective interpretations of the major poems of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Beaddoes, Clare, and Darley-develop the themes of Romantic myth-making and the dialectical relationship ...
