Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-195) and index.

Introduction : The English romantic poets: their background, their country's history, and the sources that influenced their literary output -- Borrowed imagination in the wake of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and The Arabian Nights -- The riots of colors, sights, and sounds: John Keats' melancholic lover and the east -- The natural goodness of man: William Wordsworth's journey from the sensuous to the sublime -- Poetic intuition and mystic vision: William Blake's quest for equality and freedom -- The interrogation of political and social systems: Percy Bysshe Shelley's call for drastic societal change -- The infatuation with personal, political, and poetic freedom: George Gordon Byron and his Byronic hero -- Conclusion : How valid is Kipling's phrase that east and west can never meet?.

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