This 1893 study of eighteenth-century English literature was the first major study of the early origins of the Romantic movement from 1700 to 1765. The author defines Romanticism, considers the literature and spirit of the age, and examines the revival of things past: the Gothic, chivalry, ballads, Northern mythology, Welsh poetry, as well as the works of Spenser and Milton.
About the author
William Lyon Phelps (1865-1943) taught at Harvard for one year and Yale for forty-one years—giving a course on modern novels that was controversial, but popular. He was a director of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans. Phelps wrote Essays on Russian Novelists (1911), Archibald Marshall: A Realistic Novelist (1919), Some Makers of American Literature (1923), and As I Like It (1923).
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