In the fourth part of his Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature, Georg Brandes traces how English poetry of the early nineteenth century swept away classical convention and moved from love of nature to political and religious revolt. He sets the poets against the background of their nation and its politics, from the Lake poets and Moore to Shelley and Byron.
A self-contained, opinionated history of English Romanticism by one of Europe’s great critics. Download the free EPUB.