Download or read book Romanticism and Consciousness written by Harold Bloom and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1970 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Romanticism and Consciousness' is a comprehensive collection of essays on Romanticism-its intellectual and political backgrounds, its place in literary history, its continued relevance to the present age, its relation to psychoanalysis and other modern trends of thought-and on the major English Romantic poets. The topics covered include the relations between nature and consciousness, nature and revolution, and nature and literary form; the principal poets studied are Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.