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J quite as much as it borrowed in the international ^^^^gan earlier in England than on the Continent and lent ' to be found in the fact that, although Romanticism be. i chronological division of eras into the 'Georgian,'.Of individual authors and have maintained a simple Treated it cursively, as a tendency present in the work In the arrangement of their subject-matter, but have Letters, have not generally accorded it a place by itself Land's share in this great movement in European History, while recognizing the importance of Eng. Romantic School.' Writers of English literary. Subject, and entitle it 'Romanticism' or 'the Historians of French and German literature are accustomed to set off a period, or a division of their For Byron, like Heine, was a repentant romanticist, with 'radical notions under his cap,' and a critical theory at odds with his practice while De Quincey was an early disciple of Wordsworth and Coleridge, - as Gautier was of Victor Hugo, - and at the same time a clever and slightly mischievous sketcher of personal traits.'- A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century (1899) by Henry Augustin Beers ' If we can imagine a composite personality of Byron and De Quincey, putting on record his half affectionate and half satirical reminiscences of the contemporary literary movement, we might have something nearly equivalent.

'There is, therefore, nothing in English corresponding to Heine's fascinating sketch ' Die Romantische Schule,' or to Theophile Gautier's almost equally fascinating and far more sympathetic ' Histoire du Romantisme. '- A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century (1899) by Henry Augustin Beers The vogue of this class of fiction, the chivalry romance, the feudal drama, the robber play and robber novel, the monkish tale and the ghost story (Ritterstück, Ritterroman, Räuberstück, Räuberroman, Klostergeschichte, Gespensterlied) both in Germany and England, satisfied, however crudely, the longing of the time for freedom, adventure, strong.

For the English public had already become sated with the melodramas and romances of Kotzebue and the other German Kraftmänner and the clever parody of ' The Robbers,' under the title of 'The Rovers,' which Canning and Ellis had published in the Anti-Jacobin, had covered the entire species with ridicule.

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Lockhart says that Scott's translation of ' Gotz' should have been published ten years sooner to have had its full effect.

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