"The introductory essay is superb, the best short introduction to
Romanticism I know. It is comprehensive, covering both the wide
range of spheres that Romanticism affected--literature, philosophy,
art, music, politics, nationalism--and the broad spectrum of
European countries in which it was an influential cultural current.
It offers a distinctive, unified interpretation of Romanticism that
nonetheless does justice to the complexities of Romantic ideas."
--Gerald Izenberg, Washington University in St. Louis