The Ethics of Romanticism (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments; Editions and abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Will to Value: 1. In pursuit of the ethical; 2. British Romanticism, Coleridge, and European moral traditions; Part II. Agent, Power, Scene: 3. Blake: the poetry of violence; 4. The tragic Wordsworth; 5. De Quincey and Romantic decadence; Part III. The Pressure of Reality: 6. Shelley and the poetry of life; 7. Hazlitt: common sense of a dissenter; 8. Keats and the ethics of immanence; 9. Byron: the world as glorious blunder; 10. The ethical bearing of literature; Select biblilography.