The Permanent pleasure essays on classics of romanticism - Fogle, Richard Harter (Athens University of Georgia Press, 1974)
Hawthorne, literary history, and criticism -- Coleridge's conversation poems -- The genre of The ancient mariner -- The romantic unity of Kubla Khan -- The dejection of Coleridge's ode -- The imaginal design of Shelley's Ode to the West wind -- Image and imagelessness: a limited reading of Prometheus unbound -- Dante and Shelley's Adonais -- Keats's Ode to a nightingale -- Beauty and truth: John Middleton Murry on Keats -- Weird mockery: an element of Hawthorne's style -- The themes of Melville's later poetry -- Melville's Clarel: doubt and belief -- Melville's poetry -- Billy Budd: the order of the fall.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Romanticism -- English-speaking countries