#  English 256cr. Comparative Romanticism: Practice and Theory 

 



 Instructor: [James Engell](/people/james-engell)  
Wednesdays, 12:00-2:00 pm | Location: Barker 269  
[Website](https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/61277)

 Selected texts in three national traditions: Coleridge, Wordsworth, Hazlitt, and Keats in English; Kant, Schiller, and Goethe in German; Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman in American Literature. Additional writers may include Robert Lowth, the Schlegels, Novalis, Schleiermacher, and Margaret Fuller. Attention to exchange among these literatures. Additional current scholarship and criticism