ABSTRACT

First published in 1926, this title presents the great artistic and literary innovations of the Romantic movement according to an often overlooked and unacknowledged definition of ‘Romanticism’, which is of particular relevance in the consideration of the English Romantic spirit: pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages.

part |424 pages

A History of English Romanticism

chapter |23 pages

The Subject Defined

chapter |38 pages

The Augustans

chapter |40 pages

The Spenserians

chapter |44 pages

The Landscape Poets

chapter |40 pages

The Miltonic Group

chapter |35 pages

The School of Warton

chapter |44 pages

The Gothic Revival

chapter |41 pages

Percy and the Ballads

chapter |33 pages

Ossian

chapter |35 pages

Thomas Chatterton

chapter |51 pages

The German Tributary