To Attempt At The Outset A Rigid Definition Of The Word _Romanticism_
Would Be To Anticipate The Substance Of This Volume. To Furnish An
Answer To The Question--What Is, Or Was, Romanticism? Or, At Least, What
Is, Or Was English Romanticism?--Is One Of My Main Purposes Herein, And
The Reader Will Be Invited To Examine A Good Many Literary Documents, And
To Do A Certain Amount Of Thinking, Before He Can Form For Himself Any
Full And Clear Notion Of The Thing. Even Then He Will Hardly Find
Himself Prepared To Give A Dictionary Definition Or Romanticism.