English Literature / Unit 13 ENL 1250 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Romantic Prose Beyond the Novel
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The idea
Romantic prose includes far more than fiction: Wordsworth's Preface, Coleridge's Biographia, Shelley's Defence, Keats's letters, Dorothy Wordsworth's journals, and the essays of Lamb, Hazlitt and De Quincey. Criticism, letters, journals and confession all carried Romantic ideas.
In practice
Prefaces, letters, journals, essays.
Where people slip
Exam passages may come from letters.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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