This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets. It steers readers through the plethora of critical material in this subject area, from contemporary responses through to modern-day readings, and directs them to the most influential work on particular poets.The editor presents key critical texts on each of the six major Romantic poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats - as well as on the changing canon.