Romantic Writing

Romantic Writings is an ideal introduction to a wide range of poetry and
prose from the period between about 1780 and 1830. The reader is guided
through canonical works by Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats
and Shelley, and through lesser-known texts by women writers such as
Mary Robinson, Letitia Elizabeth Landon and Felicia Hemans. The book
introduces current debates about such issues as the Romantic artist,
women writers and readers, and colonialism and the exotic.
Romantic Writings has been designed for readers beginning undergraduate
study in literature and is written in a lively and accessible style. Each
chapter includes practical exercises in analysing significant passages of
text and criticism, followed by detailed discussion. Also included are key
critical texts by Stuart Curran, Raymond Schwab, Sigmund Freud and
René Wellek.
Stephen Bygrave is Senior Lecturer in English at the University
of Southampton
A210 Approaching Literature is based on a series of three volumes.
The complete series is:
The Realist Novel
Romantic Writings
Shakespeare and the Canon