In the first essay, "On the Discrimination of Romanticisms," the author illustrates the nature of certain procedures used in the study of Romanticism. He looks at each procedure and then analyses the results of these procedures and its importance. The author addresses the question of what effects the movement had, both moral and aesthetic; however, he also states that first the task of analysis and comparison must be made. The way that each "historically significant and philosophically instructive" idea appears depends on how it is approached.
The other two general essays describe Romantic nature imagery and metaphors that run through Romantic poetry, respectively. The other essays discuss such authors as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats.
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Jesse D. Hurlbut--Last Updated November 10, 1993