Romanticism

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction....Pages 1-42
August Wilhelm von Schlegel: Lectures on Dramatic Literature....Pages 43-55
Madame de Staël: Germany....Pages 55-60
Heinrich Heine: The Romantic School....Pages 60-71
William Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads....Pages 72-81
Percy Bysshe Shelley: “A Defence of Poetry”....Pages 81-97
John Keats: Letter to Benjamin Bailey....Pages 97-101
Victor Hugo: Preface to Cromwell....Pages 101-118
Charles Baudelaire: “The Salon of 1846”....Pages 118-121
Novalis: “Christendom or Europe”....Pages 122-138
Friedrich Schleiermacher: Speeches on Religion to its Cultured Despisers....Pages 138-149
François de Chateaubriand: The Genius of Christianity....Pages 149-161
Félicité de Lamennais: Words of a Believer....Pages 161-176
The Saint-Simonians: The Doctrine of Saint-Simon: An Exposition, First Year, 1828–1829....Pages 176-188
Edmund Burke: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs....Pages 189-195
Joseph de Maistre: Essay on the Generative Principle of Political Constitutions....Pages 195-200
Friedrich von Savigny: Of The Vocation of our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence....Pages 200-212
Walter Savage Landor: Imaginary Conversations....Pages 212-221
Giuseppe Mazzini: Letter to Lamennais....Pages 221-228
Adam Mickiewicz: Prologue to Pan Tadeusz....Pages 228-231
Richard Wagner: “The Revolution”....Pages 232-238
Sir Walter Scott: Dedicatory Epistle, Ivanhoe....Pages 239-250
Thomas Carlyle: Past and Present....Pages 250-261
Jules Michelet: Preface to Historical View of the French Revolution....Pages 261-271
Alphonse de Lamartine: History of the Revolution of 1848....Pages 271-284
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Sorrows of Young Werther....Pages 285-293
Jean Jacques Rousseau: Confessions....Pages 294-303
Friedrich Schleiermacher: Soliloquies....Pages 304-313
Lord Byron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Manfred....Pages 313-337
Alfred de Musset: The Confession of a Child of the Century....Pages 338-351
Selections from Goethe, Novalis, and William Blake....Pages 351-354
Back Matter....Pages 355-367