Romanticism: A Critical Reader.

My first response to Romanticism: A Critical Reader, which is offered 'both as a companion and a supplement to' Duncan Wu's earlier Romanticism: An Anthology (1994), was one of slight disappointment. However, before I proceed to justify this initial reaction, I should in all fairness provide some account of the obvious strengths of this new collection of previously published critical essays. Undergraduates, for whom the volume is designed, will undoubtedly find it extremely useful; Wu has gathered together a generally impressive selection of essays from the past fifteen years which offer the student reader an introduction to the work of, amongst others, Marilyn Butler, James …