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Part 1 Romantic illusions: the definitive text, Honore de Balzac et al;the intense inane - religious revivial in English, French and Germanromanticism, M.K. Abrams and William Empson; separating life and art -romantic documents, romantic punctuation, Gustave Flaubert and George GordonByron; the cookbook as romantic pastoral, Elizabeth David; secret codes,Caspar David Friedrich and Robert Schumann; mad poets, William Cowper et al.Part 2 Approaches to criticism: the ruins of Walter Benjamin - German andEnglish baroque drama, romantic aesthetics and symbolist theory of language;concealed structures, Heinrich Schenker et al; ambiguous intentions, WilliamEmpson; the journalist critic as hero, George Bernard Shaw.