Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The eighteenth-century construction of Romanticism; 2. Refinement, Romanticism, Francis Jeffrey; 3. Wordsworth's Pope; 4. Mirror and lamp; Conclusion, with thoughts on method in literary historiography; Notes; Bibliography.

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This is a study of the development of a 'romantic literary history', and its implications for literary historiography.

Reviews

'Robert Griffin's book, with its odd combination of modesty and daring, is a refreshing challenge ... and it ought to stimulate lively debate.' David Fairer, Romanticism 'Griffin's is a remarkable and exciting book. And it is a good thing that it appears in Cambridge's series, Studies in Romanticism: its argument is one that eighteenth-century scholars should not keep to themselves.' Eighteenth-Century Studies '... this is a book to wrestle with, and to delight in - and certainly not to be neglected.' The Scriblerian 'Robert Griffin's book, with its odd combination of modesty and daring, is a refreshing challenge to that established pattern, and it ought to stimulate lively debate.' Romanticism