Starting from the Romantic manifesto of Wordsworth’s preface to Lyrical Ballads, this anthology gathers the century’s chief statements on the nature of poetry and criticism. Coleridge, Blake, Lamb, Shelley, Hazlitt, Keble, Newman, Carlyle, Leigh Hunt, Matthew Arnold, Ruskin and John Stuart Mill all appear, mostly arguing general principles rather than reviewing single books.
A compact library of Victorian and Romantic criticism for students of poetry and anyone who wants the originals behind the textbooks. Download the free EPUB.