To attempt at the outset a rigid definition of the word _romanticism_ would be to anticipate the substance of this volume. To furnish an answer to the question--What is, or was, romanticism? or, at least, What is, or was English romanticism?--is one of my main purposes herein, and the reader will be invited to examine a good many literary documents, and to do a certain amount of thinking, before he can form for himself any full and clear notion of the thing. Even then he will hardly find himself prepared to give a dictionary definition or romanticism. There are words which connote so much, which take up into themselves so much of the history of the human mind, that any compendious explanatio…
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