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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> The Romantic Agony is now almost forty years old and it is surely safe to call it a classic a classic in a sense which places it among such books as have in the depth of their insights power to alter a reader’s understanding of the history of his society and perhaps of his own history.’ Frank Kermode In his remarkable study The Romantic Agony Mario Praz has described the whole Romantic literature under one of its most characteristic aspects that of erotic sensibility. This ‘exceedingly learned informative and curious book’ (New Statesman) is in effect an analysis of a mood in literature-one which however transient was widespread. Expressed in dreams of ‘luxurious cruelties’ ‘fatal women’ corpse-passions and sinful agonies of delight the mood-as seen in the influence of Byron and De Sade-had a major effect on poets and painters of the nineteenth century. And the affinities between them and century counterparts their twentieth- make Professor Praz’s account of the Romantic-De- cadents ‘one of the indispensable guides’ as Frank Kermode observes ‘to the study of our epoch.” own literature and our own First published in 1933 The Romantic Agony was reissued in 1951 in a second edition containing much new material. For this 1970 impression the author has made corrections and the chapter notes have been reset to incorporate the 1951 addenda. Translated from the Italian by Angus Davidson.