The Romantic Imagination

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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.