"The book deserves a large and passionate readership among both Romanticists and others; I hope it will inspire further work along similar lines." -- Modern Philology
"... a collection of essays that is admirable for its quite conservative and utterly convincing account of the structuring presence of the classical rhetorical tradition in the works of several Romantic writers..." -- The Wordsworth Circle
Romantic "genius" did not sweep away classical rhetoric. As these essays demonstrate, romantic writers drew upon a number of rhetorical traditions -- including the sophistic, classical, biblical, and enlightenment in the creation of their art.
