Romanticism and Evolution: The Nineteenth Century: An Anthology

This book, originally published by Capricorn Books in 1968, contains writings by the chief exponents of romanticism and the evolutionary theory in its various applications: Rousseau, Kant, Schiller, Blake, Wordsworth, Goethe, Coleridge, Emerson, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Darwin, Spencer, James, Baudelaire, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and others. Between them, these two movements carried Western thought from the rationalism of the Enlightenment to the existentialism of the 20th century. Suitable for courses in history and literature.