Abstract:The Romantic era is one of the great ages of literary criticism; but if one were looking for some general consensus about the nature and procedures of literature, then ‘Romantic Literary Criticism’ would quickly prove an elusive entity, more so even than, say, ‘formalism’ or ‘New Historicism’ might. Coleridge's gigantic attempt to construct a theory of literature and criticism based on absolute philosophical principles stands at one extreme; but, no less ‘Romantic’ would be the self‐conscious contrary of such … Show more
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