James Beattie's The Minstrel and the Origins of Romantic AutobiographyE. Mellen Press, 1992 - 312 pages Using The Minstrel as a creative model, Everard King illuminates the sources and nature of Romantic autobiography in the works of Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Scott, Byron, and Chateaubriand. |
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Notes and References | 201 |
Appendix A Texts of Retirement The Hermit | 241 |
Appendix B Text of To Mr Alexander Ross | 277 |
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