# Romance: Two Lectures

Author: Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir, 1861-1922

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19367

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Romance%3A+Two+Lectures+Raleigh&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The period of English political history which falls between Pitt's acceptance of office as prime minister, in 1783, and the passing of the Reform Bill, in 1832, is a period rich in character and event. The same period of fifty years is one of the most crowded epochs of our national literature. In 1783 William Blake produced his _Poetical Sketches_, and George Crabbe published _The Village_. In 1832 Scott died, not many months after the death of Goethe. Between these two dates a great company of English writers produced a literature of immense bulk, and of almost endless diversity of character. Yet one dominant strain in that literature has commonly been allowed to give a name to the whole...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/romance-two-lectures-19367/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/romance-two-lectures-19367/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/romance-two-lectures-19367/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/romance-two-lectures-19367/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/romance-two-lectures-19367/chapters/5/index.md)