Beschreibung:
Hermann Fischer's acclaimed study of Romantic verse narrative, available for the first time in English.
Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Genre and its Historical Context; 1. Genre definitions; 2. The initial situation; Part II. The History of the Romantic Tale in Verse: Poets, Works, Critics and the Public: 3. Early forms; 4. The establishment of the genre by Sir Walter Scott, its fashionable period and imitations by other poets; 5. 'The postscript of the Augustans' and the opposite of the romance; 6. Ramification and dissolution; 7. The subsequent fate of the genre; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.