Milnes Tim. The Truth about Romantism. Pragmatism and Idealism in Keats, Shelley, Coleridge

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 267 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-19807-3.Reading Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats in this way also alerts us to the fact that finding a common ground between persons, cultures, and historical eras is the precondition, not the product, of interpretation. In other words, if we are to interpret the romantics at all, we are compelled to treat them as inhabiting a conceptual- and value-space that is at least commensurable (that is, comparable) with our own. Consequently, the method of the present study is ‘romantic’, not because of its ‘immanence to’ or ‘transcendence of ’ a romantic paradigm, but because it rejects such terms as outworn and metaphysical.