This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets.
Guides readers through the wealth of critical material available on the Romantic poets and directs them to the most influential readings
Presents key critical texts on each of the major Romantic poets – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats – as well as on poets of more marginal canonical standing
Cross-referencing between the different sections highlights continuities and counterpoints
About the Author
The Editor
UTTARA NATARAJAN is Senior Lecturer in English at Goldsmiths College, University of London. Her previous publications include Hazlitt and the Reach of Sense (1998) and, with Tom Paulin and Duncan Wu, Metaphysical Hazlitt (2005).
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An invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets, from contemporary responses through to modern-day readings
Guides readers through the wealth of critical material available on the Romantic poets and directs them to the most influential readings
Presents key critical texts on each of the major Romantic poets – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats – as well as on poets of more marginal canonical standing
Cross-referencing between the different sections highlights continuities and counterpoints
