Paradise lost and the Romantic reader

This book examines the presence of Paradise Lost in a wide range of canonical texts. It explores the poem´s importance for the poetic projects of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats and Byron. The Romantic prose writers, De Quincey, Hazlitt, Lamb, Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley are also considered.