The old imperial code. The disorder of things; The neoclassical genre-system; Genre versus genius; The cognitive turn -- Romantic genre theory. Anglo-German dialogues; The revolutionary contex; The language of forms; Wordsworth in 1815 -- (Anti-)didacticism. Pure and applied poetry; Palpable designs; The didactic poem; Aesthetic Education -- Archaism and innovation. Ancients and moderns; The antiquarian dilemma; Make old, make it new; The dialectic of revivalism -- The combinatorial method. Origins and absolutes; rough-mixing and smooth-mixing; The politics of miscellany; Shelley and the 'great poem'.
Romanticism -- Great Britain
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism