From Blake to Coleridge, and Wordsworth to Shelley, this volume provides a critical overview of the poets who defined the English Romantic period. Specific topics such as the forms and characteristics of English Romantic poetry are addressed.

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The Makings of a Music: Reflections on Wordsworth and Yeats -- The Poetics of Prophecy -- Truth the Best Music: The Ode on a Grecian Urn -- English Romanticism -- Phases of English Romanticism -- Rhyme and the Arbitrariness of Language -- The Narrator as Satiric Device in Don Juan -- Form and Freedom in European Romantic Poetry -- "We Must Away": Tragedy and the Imagination in Coleridge's Later Poems -- Involute and Symbol in the Romantic Imagination -- The Imaginative Vision of Kubla Khan -- Time and History in Wordsworth -- Byron and Shelley -- Keats's Poems: The Material Dimensions -- The Religion of Empire -- Chronology.