The Romantic Imagination

This volume presents major statements by Coleridge Wordsworth Keats and Shelley (with annotations excerpting some of Hazlitt''s more important statements) and a selection of seminal and representative studies by mordern critics. The Editor''s Introduction gives a brief account of the genesis of the Romantic Imagination in eighteenth-century aesthetics discusses the reception of Romantic theories of Imagination in Victorian England and places in perspective statements of twentieth-century critics.