James Beattie's The Minstrel and the Origins of Romantic AutobiographyUsing The Minstrel as a creative model, Everard King illuminates the sources and nature of Romantic autobiography in the works of Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Scott, Byron, and Chateaubriand. |
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