The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism, Volume 5: Romanticism

This is the sixth volume to be published in the excellent Cambridge History of Literary Criticism series. It presents an analysis in 17 chapters of the literary criticism during the Romantic period. The geographical focus is largely European. Each chapter is accompanied by footnote documentation and written by acknowledged experts in their respective fields. In his concise introduction, the editor of the volume, Marshall Brown, indicates that as the volume should “be useful today and to an Anglophone readership, [he has] not tried to represent all facets of literary criticism from our period equally” (p. 4).

In the first chapter,...