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Wordsworth's Pope : a study in literary historiography

Close investigation of the Romantics' view of literary history reveals that Romanticism defined itself by reconfiguring its literary past. Robert J. Griffin traces the genesis and transmission of 'romantic literary history', questioning many basic assumptions about the chronological and conceptual boundaries of Romanticism.
Print Book, English, 1995
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995
XII, 190 p. 24 cm
9780521481717, 0521481716
1015095140
Introduction; 1. The eighteenth-century construction of Romanticism; 2. Refinement, Romanticism, Francis Jeffrey; 3. Wordsworth's Pope; 4. Mirror and lamp; Conclusion, with thoughts on method in literary historiography; Notes; Bibliography.