Simon Haines is a member of the English Department in the School of Humanities at the Australian National University, Australia. He has also been a banker, a diplomat and an intelligence analyst. He is the author of Shelley's Poetry: The Divided Self (Macmillan, 1997) and a number of articles on poetry (especially Romantic and post-Romantic), and the connections between poetry and philosophy (especially moral and political philosophy).

'...this is a hugely impressive book - vast in scope and conception, powerful in execution and...meticulous in detail and reference.' - Stephen Prickett, Regius Professor Emeritus of English, Glasgow University

• Introduction Homer: Passion in the Iliad Sophocles' Antigone and Thucydides' Athens: Romanticism and Realism in Politics Plato and Aristotle: Concept and Passion The Inheritance of Augustine: Confessions Aquinas and the Realist Revival Dante and Medieval Romanticism Renaissance, Reformation and Shakespeare's Realism Romanticism from Descartes to Rousseau Notes Bibliography Index

Simon Haines is a member of the English Department in the School of Humanities at the Australian National University, Australia. He has also been a banker, a diplomat and an intelligence analyst. He is the author of Shelley's Poetry: The Divided Self (Macmillan, 1997) and a number of articles on poetry (especially Romantic and post-Romantic), and the connections between poetry and philosophy (especially moral and political philosophy).

'...this is a hugely impressive book - vast in scope and conception, powerful in execution and...meticulous in detail and reference.' - Stephen Prickett, Regius Professor Emeritus of English, Glasgow University

• Introduction Homer: Passion in the Iliad Sophocles' Antigone and Thucydides' Athens: Romanticism and Realism in Politics Plato and Aristotle: Concept and Passion The Inheritance of Augustine: Confessions Aquinas and the Realist Revival Dante and Medieval Romanticism Renaissance, Reformation and Shakespeare's Realism Romanticism from Descartes to Rousseau Notes Bibliography Index