This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets. * Guides readers through the wealth of critical material available on the Romantic poets and directs them to the most influential readings * Presents key critical texts on each of the major Romantic poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats - as well as on poets of more marginal canonical standing * Cross-referencing between the different sections highlights continuities and counterpoints