ABSTRACT

First published in 1940. This title examines the tradition of Romantic literature, and the conception of poetry held by poets and critics throughout the centuries. Evans explores the writings of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Coleridge, up until the modernist movement and the works of W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

chapter 1|6 pages

Introductory

chapter 3|21 pages

Chaucer to Shakespeare

chapter 4|17 pages

Donne to Milton

chapter 5|15 pages

Dryden and Pope

chapter 6|23 pages

The Eighteenth Century

chapter 7|10 pages

Thomas Gray and William Blake

chapter 8|20 pages

Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron and Scott

chapter 9|10 pages

Keats

chapter 10|17 pages

Shelley

chapter 11|16 pages

Tennyson and Browning