ABSTRACT
How does gender function in the canonical texts of masculine Romanticism? What shared definitions of the nature and function of the female do we find in the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, in their treatments of the nature of the imagination, of the creative process, of erotic love, of the development of the self, of the value and rights of the common man, of the epistemological relation of the “philosophic mind” to the natural world?
