This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets.

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• Guides readers through the wealth of critical material available on the Romantic poets and directs them to the most influential readings
  
• Presents key critical texts on each of the major Romantic poets – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats – as well as on poets of more marginal canonical standing
  
• Cross-referencing between the different sections highlights continuities and counterpoints