Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. 1. The Evolution of Sensibility and Representation
5. 1.1 Autumn in the Romantic Lyric 3
6. 1.2 Reflection as Mimetic Trope 23
7. 1.3 On Romantic Cognition 39
8. 1.4 Vörösmarty and the Poetic Fragment in Hungarian Romanticism 55
9. 1.5 Loss and Expectation 63
10. 1.6 Poetry as Self-Consumption 91
11. 2. The Evolution of Genre
12. 2.1 Lyric Poetry in the Early Romantic Theory of the Schlegel Brothers 115
13. 2.2 The Romantic Ode 143
14. 2.3 The European Romantic Epic and the History of a Genre 163
15. 2.4 The Sublime Sonnet in European Romanticism 181
16. 2.5 Elegiac Muses 197
17. 3. Romantic Poetry and National Projects
18. 3.1 Awakening Peripheries 225
19. 3.2 “National Poets” in the Romantic Age 249
20. 3.3 Romanian Poetry and the Great Romantic Narrative about the Mission of the Poet 257
21. 3.4 Greek Romanticism: A Cosmopolitan Discourse 269
22. 3.5 Time and History in Spanish Romantic Poetry 287
23. 3.6 The Experience of the City in British Romantic Poetry 305
24. 3.7 “Sons of Song” 333
25. 3.8 Near the Rapids 355
26. 3.9 Address and Its Dialectics in American Romantic Poetry 373
27. 3.10 Romantic Poetry in Latin America 401
28. 4. Interpretations, Re-creations, and Performances of Romantic Poetry
29. 4.1 Baudelaire’s Re-reading of Romanticism 419
30. 4.2 Nachtigallenwahnsinn and Rabbinismus 443
31. 4.3 Reception as Performance 461
32. 4.4 Implications of an Influence 473
33. 4.5 Organicist Poetics as Romantic Heritage? 491
34. 4.6 The Uses of Romantic Poetry 509
35. Index of Names 525
36. Index of Titles 531