The Roots of Romanticism

"Isaiah Berlin´s Mellon Lectures on romanticism, a movement that he believed to be ´the greatest single shift in the consciousness of the West to have occurred,´ are as eloquent, sprightly, and profound as anything he ever produced. This edition is provided with fascinating addenda as well as exacting editing and full references; it presents Berlin´s analysis of the contradictions, plurality, and irrationality of a vital conjunction in intellectual, political, and artistic history, and restores the voice of the magus at its most thought-provoking and beguiling."--Roy Foster, University of Oxford