Chapter 1

William Blake and the First Generation Romantics

Songs of Innocence and of Experience

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Visionary Imagination and Mysticism

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Critique of Religion and Industrialization

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The French Revolution and its impact on poetry

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Contraries and the nature of existence

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Chapter 2

William Wordsworth

Tintern Abbey and Ode: Intimations of Immortality

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Preface to Lyrical Ballads: Theory of Poetry

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Pantheism and the Healing Power of Nature

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Memory, Childhood, and the Growth of the Mind

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Poetic Diction and the language of common men

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Chapter 3

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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Kubla Khan

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Supernaturalism and the Willing Suspension of Disbelief

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Fancy vs Imagination (Biographia Literaria)

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The fragment poem and dream visions

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Chapter 4

Second Generation Romantics: Shelley and Keats

Percy Bysshe Shelley: 'Ode to the West Wind', 'Ozymandias'

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John Keats: 'Ode to a Nightingale', 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'

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Concept of Negative Capability (Keats)

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Shelley's Idealism, Revolutionary politics, and myth-making

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Sensuousness, Transience, and the pursuit of Beauty

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Chapter 5

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

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The Gothic Tradition and Science Fiction

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The Overreacher and the critique of Enlightenment science

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Themes of Monstrosity, Isolation, and Parenting

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Multiple narratives and the epistolary frame

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