Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism (Literary Movements - Facts on File Library of World Literature)

The Romantics valued nature, spontaneity, visionary experience, powerful feeling, and the artist's individual response to the experience of life. Encyclopedia of Literary Romanticism provides a comprehensive A-to-Z guide to the Romantic movement, including such great writers as William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Mary Shelley. Entries in this new resource cover poets and novelists, literary works, historical and cultural topics, and more, ranging from the 18th-century precursors of the Romantics, such as Thomas Gray, to the six poets traditionally regarded as the chief Romantics, to mid-19th-century Victorians often regarded as late Romantics, such as Elizabeth Barrett Browning Contents......Page 4 Introduction......Page 6 A......Page 18 B......Page 37 C......Page 72 D......Page 113 E......Page 122 F......Page 151 G......Page 166 H......Page 182 I......Page 209 J......Page 225 K......Page 230 L......Page 238 M......Page 272 N......Page 311 O......Page 325 P......Page 345 Q......Page 375 R......Page 378 S......Page 404 T......Page 465 U......Page 485 V......Page 487 W......Page 494 Y......Page 517 Chronology......Page 519 Selected Bibliography of Secondary Sources......Page 545 Index......Page 549 [edited By] Andrew Maunder. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 528-531) And Index.