An introduction to English romanticism which includes a variety of critical articles that analyze important literary works within the genre.
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General characteristics of Romantic literature / Thomas McFarland -- The importance of imagination / James Engell -- Nature as inspiration / Heather Coombs -- The meditative qualities of Romantic poetry / M.H. Abrams -- The religious views of the Romantic poets / Hoxie Neale Fairchild -- The imagination of William Blake / Mark Richard Barna -- The greatness of Wordsworth's "The prelude" / Frank N. Magill -- Coleridge's "Rime of the ancient mariner" is a superior Romantic ballad / John Spencer Hill -- A critique of the Byronic hero in Manfred / Andrew Rutherford -- The power of nature in Shelley's "Ode to the west wind" / Harold Bloom -- Medieval influences in Keats's "La belle dame sans merci" / Stuart M. Sperry -- Romantic and anti-romantic elements in Scott's Waverley / Robin Mayhead -- A cautious acceptance of Romanticism in Austen's Persuasion / June Dwyer -- Mary Shelley: Frankenstein / Muriel Spark -- The plain-speaking intimacy of Hazlitt's essays / Christopher Salvesen -- The decline of English Romanticism / Derek Colville -- Romantic poetry is aesthetically trite / T.E. Hulme.