Table of Contents

Introduction. Part 1. 1. Romantic poems and contexts Stephen Bygrave 2. Versions of British Romantic writing Stephen Bygrave 3. Defences of poetry Graham Allen 4. Women writers and readers Susan Matthews 5. Reading The Prelude Stephen Bygrave 6. Romantic verse narrative Graham Allen 7. Reading Byron Stephen Bygrave 8. Women poets 1780-1830 Amanda Gilroy 9. Romantic allegory Graham Allen 10. Colonialism and the exotic Nigel Leask 11. Reading Kleist and Hoffmann Richard Allen Conclusion Stephen Bygrave Part Two. 1. Romantic poetry: The I altered Stuart Curran 2. The oriental renaissance Raymond Schwab 3. The Corsair Lord Byron 4. The uncanny Sigmund Freud 5. The concept of Romanticism in literary history Rene Wellek.

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""Romantic Writings is an ideal introduction to a wide range of poetry and prose from the period between about 1780 and 1830...the ideal introduction to a veritable treasury of Western literature."
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