Romantic Manifestos Manifest

Poet and Romantics scholar Jeffrey C. Robinson eloquently argues that the principles of Romanticism are alive and well in the twenty-first century.

Romantics scholar Jeffrey C. Robinson elaborates commentaries on one hundred “manifesto statements” taken from nineteenth-century texts to illustrate that radical principles of poetry emerge in and are central to Romanticism. When these principles have been addressed at all, literary history tends to disperse and disempower them; Romantic Manifes...