Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature

"The first modern study of the Romantic achievement, its origins and evolution both in theory and practice."-Stuart M. Sperry, Jr., Indiana Unviersity

In this remarkable new book, M. H. Abrams definitively studies the Romantic Age (1789-1835)-the age in which Shelley claimed that "the literature of England has arisen as it were from a new birth." Abrams shows that the major poets of the age had in common important themes, modes of expression, and ways of feeling and imagining; that the writi...