This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single volume. It is both a valuable introduction to the Romantics and an influential work of literary criticism. The perceptive interpretations of the major poems of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Beddoes, Clare, and Darley develop the themes of Romantic myth-making and the dialectical relationship between nature and imagination.For this new edition, Harold Bloom has added an introductory essay on the historical backgrounds of English Romantic poetry and an epilogue relating his book to literary trends.
- ISBN10 0801491177
- ISBN13 9780801491177
- Publish Date 30 April 1971
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Cornell University Press
- Edition revised and expanded edition
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 506
- Language English