Romantic Aversions: Aftermaths of Classicism in Wordsworth and Coleridge

Despite their emphasis on originality, genius and spontaneity, the first-generation Romantics manifested a highly intertextual style that, while repressing certain classical and neoclassical literary conventions, revealed a deep dependence on those same rhetorical practices. Combining original close readings with the larger sweep of genre study, Douglas Kneale brings to light new and unexpected convergences in the Romantic tradition.