The major Romantic poets cannot be understood, historically, without an awareness of the extent to which their distinctive concepts, plots, forms, and imagery were shaped first by the promise, then by the tragedy, of the French...

Good discussion of the Age of Dryden. First section of a lengthy article from The Cambridge History of English and American Literature.

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