Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination

Abstract

List of illustrations Abbreviations Shakespeare, imagination, romanticism 'The eighth commandment was not made for bards': Coleridge and the problem of inherited language Shakespearean voices in Coleridge's poetry Wordsworth on Shakespeare Shakespeare on Wordsworth Shakespeare and Blake's imagination Blake's poetry and the auspices of Shakespeare Shakespeare to Hazlitt to Keats Keats and his presider Shelley and the lion in the path Byron's pose Notes