Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen

by Charles Rosen

Book Overview

Few can match Charles Rosen's cultivation and discernment, whether as pianist, music historian, or critic. Here he gives us a performance of literary criticism as high art, a critical conjuring of the Romantic period by way of some of its central texts.

"What is the real business of the critic?" Rosen asks of George Bernard Shaw in one of his essays. It is a question he answers throughout this collection as he demonstrates and analyzes various...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674002024
• ISBN13: 9780674002029
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.81 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"