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English Romanticism — Selected Bibliography

Poets

General Literary Sources

  • Frank Jordan, ed. The English Romantic Poets: A Review of Research and Criticism fourth edition, (1985)
  • Rene Wellek History of Modern Criticism: 1750-1950 Volume 2 (1955)
  • Morse Peckham The Triumph of Romanticism (1970)
  • Jacques Barzun Classic. Romantic, and Modern (1961)
  • Marilyn Gaull English Romanticism: The Human Context (1988)
  • M. H. Abrams The Mirror and the Lamp (1953)
  • W. J. Bate From Classic to Romantic (1946)
  • Northrop Frye, ed. Romanticism Reconsidered (1963)
  • M. H. Abrams, ed. English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism (1960)
  • Harold Bloom, ed. Romanticism and Consciousness (1970)
  • Anne Mellor, ed. Romanticism and Feminism (1988)
  • Mario Praz The Romantic Agony (1933)
  • M. H. Abrams, Natural Supernaturalism (1971)
  • Anne Mellor Romantic Irony (1980)
  • Harold Bloom The Visionary Company (1961)
  • Michael Cooke Acts of Inclusion (1979)
  • Thomas McFarland Romanticism and the Forms of Ruin (1981)
  • Edward Bostetter The Romantic Ventriloquists (1963)
  • Leslie Brisman Romantic Origins (1978)
  • Tilottama Rajan Dark Interpreter: The Discourse of Romanticism (1980)
  • David Simpson Irony and Authority in Romantic Poetry (1979)
  • James Engell The Creative Imagination: Enlightenment to Romanticism (1981)
  • Barbara Schapiro The Romantic Mother (1983)
  • Julie Ellison Delicate Subjects: Romanticism. Gender, and the Ethics of Understanding (1990)
  • Meena Alexander Women in Romanticism: Mary Wollstonecraft, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Mary Shelley (1989)
  • Diane Hoeveler Romantic Androgyny: The Women Within (1990)
  • Anne Mellor Romanticism and Gender (1993)
  • Jerome McGann The Romantic Ideology (1983)

William Blake

  • S. Foster Damon William Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols (1924)
  • Northrop Frye Fearful Symmetry (1947)
  • Harold Bloom Blake's Apocalypse (1963)
  • David Erdman Blake: Prophet Against Empire (1954)
  • Hazard Adams William Blake: A Reading of the Shorter Poems (1963)
  • Robert Gleckner The Piper and the Bard (1959)
  • E. D. Hirsch Songs of Innocence and Experience (1964)
  • Leslie Tannenbaum Biblical Tradition in Blake's Early Prophecies (1982)
  • W. J. T. Mitchell Blake's Composite Art (1978)
  • Morris Eaves William Blake's Theory of Art (1982)
  • Leopold Damrosch Symbol and Truth in Blake's Myth (1980)
  • Anne Mellor Blake's Human Form Divine (1974)
  • Michael Ferber The Social Vision of William Blake (1985)
  • Christine Gallant Blake and the Assimilation of Chaos (1978)
  • Thomas Frosch The Awakening of Albion (1974)
  • Harold Bloom, ed. William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Modern Critical Interpretations
  • Brian Wilke and Mary Lynn Johnson Blake's Four Zoas (1978)
  • Brenda Webster Blake's Prophetic Psychology (1983)
  • Miller, Bracher, and Ault, eds. Blake and the Argument of Method (1987)
  • Molly Anne Rothenberg Rethinking Blake's Textuality (1993)
  • David Punter,ed. William Blake (1996)
  • Hilton and Vogler, eds. Unnam'd Forms: Blake and Textualitv (1986)
  • Jeanne Moskal Blake. Ethics, and Forgiveness (1994)
  • Stephen Cox Love and Logic: The Evolution of Blake's Thought (1992)
  • John Mee Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790's (1992)

William Wordsworth

  • Geoffrey Hartman Wordsworth's Poetry. 1787-1814 (1964)
  • Herbert Lindenberger On Wordsworth's Prelude (1963)
  • John Jones The Egotistical Sublime (1954)
  • David Perkins The Quest for Permanence (1959)
  • David Ferry The Limits of Mortality (1959)
  • James Averill Wordsworth and the Poetry of Human Suffering (1980)
  • Frances Ferguson Wordsworth: Language as Counter-Spirit (1977)
  • Jonathan Wordsworth William Wordsworth: The Borders of Vision (1982)
  • Albert Wlecke Wordsworth and the Sublime (1973)
  • Michael Friedman The Making of a Tory Humanist: William Wordsworth and the Idea of Community (1979)
  • Willard Spiegelman Wordsworth's Heroes (1985)
  • William Galperin Revision and Authority in Wordsworth (1989)
  • Mary Jacobus Romanticism. Writing, and Sexual Difference (1989)
  • David Simpson Wordsworth and the Figurings of the Real (1982)
  • Don Bialostosky Wordsworth Dialogics and the Practice of Criticism
  • Susan Eilenberg Strange Power of Speech: Wordsworth. Colderidge. and Literary Possession (1992)
  • Douglas Wilson The Romantic Dream: Wordsworth and the Poetics of the Unconscious (1993)
  • David Collings Wordsworthian Errancies: The Poetics of Cultural Dismemberment (1994)
  • Richard Bourke Romantic Discourse and Political Modernity: Wordsworth, the Intellectual and Cultural Critique (1993)
  • David Haney William Wordsworth and the Hermeneutics of Incarnation (1993)
  • Richard McGhee Guilty Pleasures: William Wordsworth's Poetry of Psychoanalysis (1993)
  • Theresa Kelley Wordsworth's Revisionist Aesthetics (1988)
  • Judith W. Page Wordsworth and the Cultivation of Women (1994)
  • Elizabeth Fay. Becoming Wordsworth. Amherst: Univ. of Mass. Press, 1995
  • Pfau, Thomas. Wordsworth's Profession. Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, (1997)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • W.J. Bate Coleridge (1968) Humphrey House Coleridge (1953)
  • John Beer Coleridge the Visionary (1959)
  • Max Schulz The Poetic Voices of Coleridge (1963)
  • Thomas McFarland Coleridge and the Pantheist Tradition (1969)
  • Paul Magnuson Coleridge's Nightmare Poetry (1974)
  • Reeve Parker Coleridge's Meditative Art (1975)
  • Kathleen Wheeler The Creative Mind in Coleridge's Poetry (1981)
  • Jean-Pierre Mileur Vision and Revision: Coleridge's Art of Immanence (1982)
  • J. Robert Barth Coleridge and the Power of Love (1988)
  • Jeanie Watson Risking Enchantment (1990)
  • Anya Taylor Coleridge's Defense of the Human (1986)
  • Paul Magnuson Coleridge and Wordsworth: A Lyrical Dialogue (1988)
  • Alethea Hayter Opium and the Romantic Imagination (1968)
  • Gerald McNiece The Knowledge That Endures: Coleridge. German Philosophy and the Logic of Romantic Thought (1992)
  • Jack Stillinger Coleridge and Textual Instability (1994)
  • Harold Bloom, ed. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Modern Critical Views (1986)
  • Raimonda Modiano Coleridge and the Concept of Nature (1985)
  • Fulford and Paley, eds. Coleridge's Visionary Languages (1993)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

  • C. E. Pulos Deep Truth (1954)
  • Harold Bloom Shelley's Mvthmaking (1959)
  • Ross Woodman The Apocalyptic Vision in the Poetry of Shelley (1964)
  • Gerald McNiece Shelley and the Revolutionary Idea (1969)
  • Earl Wasserman Shelley: A Reading (1971)
  • Judith Chemaik The Lyrics of Shelley (1972)
  • Stuart Curran Shelley's Annus Mirabilis (1975)
  • Timothy Web Shelley: A Voice Not Understood (1977)
  • Nathaniel Brown Sexuality and Feminism in Shelley ( 1979)
  • Jean Hall The Transforming Image (1981)
  • Michael Scrivener Radical Shelley (1982)
  • William Keach Shelley's Style (1984)
  • Ronald Tetreault The Poetry of Life (1987)
  • Jerrold Hogle Shelley's Process (1988)
  • Stuart Sperry Shelley's Major Verse (1988)
  • Timothy Clark Embodying Revolution: The Figure of the Poet in Shelley's Poetry (1989)
  • William Ulmer Shelleyan Eros (1990)
  • Barbara Gelpi Shelley's Goddess (1992)
  • Karen Weisman Imageless Truths ( 1994)
  • Timothy Morton Shelley and the Revolution in Taste: The Body and the Natural World (1994)
  • Susan Wolfson Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism (1997)
  • Teddi Chichester Bonca Shelley's Mirrors of Love (1999)
  • Harold Bloom, ed. Modem Critical Views: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1984)
  • G. Kirn Blank, ed. The New Shelley (1991)
  • Betty T. Bennett and Stuart Curran, eds. Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World (1996)
  • Timothy Clark and Jerrold E. Hoggle, eds. Evaluating Shelley (1996)

George Gordon, Lord Byron

  • George Ridenour The Style of Don Juan (1960)
  • Peter Thorslev The Bvronic Hero (1962)
  • Robert Gleckner Bvron and the Ruins of Paradise (1967)
  • Leslie Marchand Byron's Poetry: A Critical Introduction (1968)
  • Jerome McGann Fiery Dust (1968)
  • Michael G. Cooke The Blind Man Traces the Circle: On the Patterns and Philosophy of Byron's Poetry (1969)
  • Jerome McGann Don Juan in Context (1976)
  • Peter Manning Byron and His Fictions (1978)
  • Frederick Beaty Byron the Satirist (1985)
  • Frederick Garber Self, Text, and Romantic Irony: The Example of Byron (1989)
  • Peter Graham Don Juan and Regency England (1990)
  • Caroline Franklin Byron's Heroines (1992)
  • Jerome Christensen Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society (1993)
  • TeranceHoagwood Byron's Dialectic: Skepticism and the Critique of Culture (1993)
  • Harold Bloom, ed. Modem Critical Interpretations: Lord Byron's Don Juan (1987)
  • Robert Gleckner, ed. Critical Essays on Lord Byron (1991)

John Keats

  • Earl Wasserman The Finer Tone (1953)
  • W. J. Bate Keats ( 1963)
  • Walter Evert Aesthetic and Myth in the Poetry of Keats (1965)
  • Morris Dickstein Keats and His Poetry (1971)
  • Jack Stillinger The Hoodwinking of Madeline (1971)
  • Stuart Sperry Keats the Poet (1973)
  • Christopher Ricks Keats and Embarrassment (1974)
  • Ronald Sharp Keats, Skepticism and the Religion of Beauty (1979)
  • Helen Vendler The Odes of John Keats (1983)
  • Leon Waldoff Keats and the Silent Work of Imagination (1985)
  • Susan Wolfson The Questioning Presence (1986
  • Marjorie Levinson Keats's Life of Allegory (1988)
  • Daniel P. Watkins Keats' Poetry and the Politics of Imagination (1989)
  • Karia Alwes Imagination Transformed:The Evolution of the Female Characters in Keats's Poetry (1993)
  • Andrew Bennett Keats, Narrative and Audience ( 1994)
  • Nicholas Roe John Keats and the Culture of Dissent (1997)
  • James O'Rourke Keats's Odes and Contemporary Criticism ( 1998)
  • Harold Bloom, ed. Modem Critical Views: John Keats ( 1984)
  • Harold Bloom, Modern Critical Interpretations: The Odes of John Keats (1987)
  • Jack Rhodes, ed. Keats's Major Odes: An Annotated Bibliography of the Criticism (1984)
  • Hermione de Almeida. ed. Critical Essays on John Keats (1990)
  • Nicholas Roe, ed. Keats and History (1995)
  • Robert M.Ryan and Ronald A. Sharp, eds. The Persistence of Poetry: Bicentennial Essays on Keats ( 1998)

 


Scientists

Joseph Priestly

  • Lester Kieft and Bennett R. Willeford, Jr. Joseph Priestley: Scientist, Theologian, and Metaphysician (1979)
  • James J. Huecher Joseph Priestley and the Idea of Progress (1987)
  • R. E. Crook Bibliogrpahy (1966)