In an engaging discussion that will appeal to all students of poetry,
including veteran scholars, this book shows which poems most occupied
the attention of these moderns, summarizes their attitudes toward
historical romanticism, explores what use they made of aesthetic and
ethical ideas from the critical prose of 1800-1825, and takes notice of
when, where, and precisely how they adapted images and echoed phrases
from romantic poetry for use in their own work.
Originally published in 1984.
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