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David Fairer (ed.), The Correspondence of Thomas Warton (Athens, Georgia, and London: University of Georgia Press, 1995), pp. lxxvi + 775. £75.00 hardback. 0 8203 1501 X.

David Fairer (ed.), The Correspondence of Thomas Warton (Athens, Georgia, and London: University... Booh Reviews Anthony John Harding (eds.), Milton, the Metaphysicals, and Romanticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 287. £35.00 hardback. 0 521 444 144. Anthony John Harding, The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism (University of Lisa Low and Missouri Press, 1995), pp. 304. £35.95 hardback. 0 8262 1007 4. Romanticism has been richly productive where theories of influence, reception, hermeneutics and intertextuality are concerned. Perhaps this is because the Romantics themselves were so persuaded that the confluence between texts was a mysterious process, worthy of writer; and that, with two exceptions, the focus is on elitist rather than popular culture. Despite the up-to-date-ness of the volume's critical introduction and agenda, its contents tend towards the conservative. Not that this detracts from the value of some excellent individual contributions. Tilottama Rajan offers a reading of Blake's major prophecies through Milton, in which she extends and amplifies the hermeneutic concerns of her Supplement of Reading. There is in Paradise Lost, she claims, a 'reading-function' (as distinct from an ideal reader), which challenges the poem's univocal authority, and which 'has broad affinities with a number of Romantic concerns a woman problematic role of the interpreter in literary transactions. Whatever the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Romanticism Edinburgh University Press

David Fairer (ed.), The Correspondence of Thomas Warton (Athens, Georgia, and London: University of Georgia Press, 1995), pp. lxxvi + 775. £75.00 hardback. 0 8203 1501 X.

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Romanticism , Volume 3 (1): 120 – Jan 1, 1997
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Booh Reviews Anthony John Harding (eds.), Milton, the Metaphysicals, and Romanticism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 287. £35.00 hardback. 0 521 444 144. Anthony John Harding, The Reception of Myth in English Romanticism (University of Lisa Low and Missouri Press, 1995), pp. 304. £35.95 hardback. 0 8262 1007 4. Romanticism has been richly productive where theories of influence, reception, hermeneutics and intertextuality are concerned. Perhaps this is because the Romantics themselves were so persuaded that the confluence between texts was a mysterious process, worthy of writer; and that, with two exceptions, the focus is on elitist rather than popular culture. Despite the up-to-date-ness of the volume's critical introduction and agenda, its contents tend towards the conservative. Not that this detracts from the value of some excellent individual contributions. Tilottama Rajan offers a reading of Blake's major prophecies through Milton, in which she extends and amplifies the hermeneutic concerns of her Supplement of Reading. There is in Paradise Lost, she claims, a 'reading-function' (as distinct from an ideal reader), which challenges the poem's univocal authority, and which 'has broad affinities with a number of Romantic concerns a woman problematic role of the interpreter in literary transactions. Whatever the

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