Table Of ContentWordsworth's Poems
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ROMANTICISM IN PERSPECTIVE:
TEXTS, CULTURES, HISTORIES
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THE SACRED AND SECULAR CANON IN ROMANTICISM
Preserving the Sacred Truths
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Malcolm Kelsall
JEFFERSON AND THE ICONOGRAPHY OF ROMANTICISM
Folk, Land, Culture and the Romantic Nation
Mark S. Lussier
ROMANTIC DYNAMICS: The Poetics of Physicality
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Acknowledgements
The spring of ideas that eventually flowed into this book was prin 1
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