Romantic Critical EssaysDavid Bromwich |
Contents
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY | 1 |
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 17701850 | 25 |
Essay Supplementary to the Preface of 1815 | 29 |
CHARLES LAMB 17751834 | 52 |
On the Tragedies of Shakspeare Considered with Reference to their Fitness for Stage Representation | 56 |
On the Acting of Munden | 71 |
On the Artificial Comedy of the Last Century | 72 |
WILLIAM HAZLITT 17781830 | 80 |
Byron and Wordsworth | 120 |
LEIGH HUNT 17841859 | 123 |
Poems by John Keats | 126 |
On the Realities of Imagination | 136 |
THOMAS DE QUINCEY 17851859 | 142 |
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth | 145 |
On Wordsworths Poetry | 149 |
The Poetry of Pope | 172 |
Why the Arts Are Not Progressive? | 84 |
On Mr Keans Iago | 88 |
On Imitation | 92 |
On Gusto | 96 |
Coriolanus | 99 |
IO On the Periodical Essayists | 102 |
A Fragment | 105 |
Mr Coleridge | 111 |
THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK 17851866 | 184 |
An Essay on Fashionable Literature | 187 |
The Four Ages of Poetry | 199 |
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY 17921822 | 212 |
Notes | 244 |
Select booklist | 265 |
Common terms and phrases
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