British Romantic Literature

Mont Blanc: being entranced by the scene

‘I seem in a trance sublime and strange’

Mont Blanc: on the shapes of the mountains

‘its subject mountains their unearthly forms’

Mont Blanc: the unknown

‘The voiceless lightning in these solitudes’

Mont Blanc: Spencer Hall on identity

‘uniquely human identity in a largely alien natural world’

Mont Blanc: Spencer Hall on what Shelley attempts to do

‘attempts to relate his intense personal experience to patterns of general belief’

Kubla Kahn: on the caves

‘caverns measureless to man’

Kubla Kahn: on fear

‘And all should cry, Beware! Beware!’

Kubla Kahn: ending

‘and drunk the milk of paradise’

Kubla Kahn: G. S. Rousseau on science

‘eighteenth-century science damages the artist and impelled him almost against his will’

Kubla Kahn: G. S. Rousseau on imagination

‘the diseased imagination was instead romanticized’

Ozymandias: first line

‘I met a traveller from an antique land’

Ozymandias: on wreckage

‘of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare’

Ozymandias: on the statues face

‘shattered visage’

Ozymandias: H. M. Richmond: on the images

‘these images had the dramatic, dreamlike simplicity’

Ozymandias: H. M. Richmond on fact

‘guided by his own tastes rather than historical fact’

Austen: on Tilney’s story

‘you will probably have a violent storm’

Austen: on her interest in the past

‘she cared for no furniture of a more modern date than the fifteenth century’

Austen: on Catherines fantasies

‘self-created delusion’

Austen: George Levine on attempts

‘romantic attempts to move beyond the limits of a confining reality’

Austen: George Levine on what the book does

‘demystifying personal and social relations’

Frankenstein: on what victor says about creating life

‘spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet’

Frankenstein: the monster on feeling like an outcast

‘increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was’

Frankenstein: Charlotte Gordon on society

‘society creates its own monsters’

Frankenstein: Charlotte Gordon on what Romantics Believed

‘The Romantics believed that children who were abused by society would become corrupted and damaged, and grow into violent, unstable adults’