J. Robert Barth, S.J. is James P. McIntyre Professor of English at Boston College and is author of several books, including Coleridge and Christian Doctrine and co-editor of The Symbolic Imagination: Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition.

"These thirteen essays on the literature produced in the aftermath of the American and French Revolutions demonstrate the renewed relevance of this literature to the dominant ethical and spiritual concerns of our time: the need for social and individual healing, the relation and responsibilities of the individual to the collective (and of the collective to the individual), the degradation of the natural environment, and, above all, the grounds for hope." -- -Anthony John Harding University of Saskatchewan "...a very deep and wide-reaching collection of thoughtful, provocative, and gratifying essays." -- -Laura Dabundo The Wordsworth Circle

J. Robert Barth, S.J. is James P. McIntyre Professor of English at Boston College and is author of several books, including Coleridge and Christian Doctrine and co-editor of The Symbolic Imagination: Coleridge and the Romantic Tradition.

"These thirteen essays on the literature produced in the aftermath of the American and French Revolutions demonstrate the renewed relevance of this literature to the dominant ethical and spiritual concerns of our time: the need for social and individual healing, the relation and responsibilities of the individual to the collective (and of the collective to the individual), the degradation of the natural environment, and, above all, the grounds for hope." -- -Anthony John Harding University of Saskatchewan "...a very deep and wide-reaching collection of thoughtful, provocative, and gratifying essays." -- -Laura Dabundo The Wordsworth Circle