Great writers student library. [Vol.] (6.) The Romantic period. Excluding the novel. (Ed. James Vinson. Assoc. ed. D. L. Kirkpatrick). Intr. by Kenneth Muir

The writers included in this volume are classed as romantics because they flourished at a particular time rather than because of what they wrote. Some of the writers, indeed, were apparently untouched by the general characteristics of the romantic movement. John O’Keefe, for example, is a dramatist who belongs in spirit to the 18th century; Samuel Rogers, who lived on into mid-Victorian times, continued to write mainly in a neo-classical idiom; neither Frere nor Praed could be described justly as a romantic poet; and Landor, although he displayed some romantic tendencies, liked to think of his work as “classical” in style and content. Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction....Pages 1-18 The Romantic Period....Pages 19-127 Back Matter....Pages 129-131