David Ferris is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Theory and the Evasion of History and the editor of Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Essays (Stanford, 1996).

"This is a truly remarkable volume, remarkable for its originality, for the driving coherence of its complex subject matter, for its bringing together a number of fields of study in a manner that forces us into new realizations about their interrelationships. This book is-there is no way to overemphasize this-an exceedingly important meditation not only on Romanticism, eighteenth-century studies, and the ways we interpret art, history, and Hellenism; it is beyond all that a superb and daring commentary on cultural studies and historicism in their relationship to theories of criticism and language." -Carol Jacobs,State University of New York, Buffalo

• Introduction; 1. Greece and the invention of culture: Winckelmann; 2. The silence of Greece: Keats; 3. The choice of tragedy: from Keats to Schelling; 4. The history of freedom: from Aeschylus to Shelley; 5. The time of judgment: Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; 6. The recall of thought: Holderlin; Notes; Index.

David Ferris is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Theory and the Evasion of History and the editor of Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Essays (Stanford, 1996).

"This is a truly remarkable volume, remarkable for its originality, for the driving coherence of its complex subject matter, for its bringing together a number of fields of study in a manner that forces us into new realizations about their interrelationships. This book is-there is no way to overemphasize this-an exceedingly important meditation not only on Romanticism, eighteenth-century studies, and the ways we interpret art, history, and Hellenism; it is beyond all that a superb and daring commentary on cultural studies and historicism in their relationship to theories of criticism and language." -Carol Jacobs,State University of New York, Buffalo

• Introduction; 1. Greece and the invention of culture: Winckelmann; 2. The silence of Greece: Keats; 3. The choice of tragedy: from Keats to Schelling; 4. The history of freedom: from Aeschylus to Shelley; 5. The time of judgment: Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; 6. The recall of thought: Holderlin; Notes; Index.

David Ferris is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of Theory and the Evasion of History and the editor of Walter Benjamin: Theoretical Essays (Stanford, 1996).

"This is a truly remarkable volume, remarkable for its originality, for the driving coherence of its complex subject matter, for its bringing together a number of fields of study in a manner that forces us into new realizations about their interrelationships. This book is-there is no way to overemphasize this-an exceedingly important meditation not only on Romanticism, eighteenth-century studies, and the ways we interpret art, history, and Hellenism; it is beyond all that a superb and daring commentary on cultural studies and historicism in their relationship to theories of criticism and language." -Carol Jacobs,State University of New York, Buffalo

• Introduction; 1. Greece and the invention of culture: Winckelmann; 2. The silence of Greece: Keats; 3. The choice of tragedy: from Keats to Schelling; 4. The history of freedom: from Aeschylus to Shelley; 5. The time of judgment: Shelley's Prometheus Unbound; 6. The recall of thought: Holderlin; Notes; Index.