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Welcome to this research guide designed to connect Gumberg Library users to resources on Romantic poets and writers from the British Isles. It will point the researcher to primary sources, reference works, print books and ebooks, databases for articles, and other sorts of high-quality information sources.
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Primary Sources
Romanticism: Life, Literature and Landscape presents the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, offering students and researchers of the Romantic period unique access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers.
Reference Works
The Cambridge Companion to British Romantic Poetry by 
Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1740-1830 by 
Cambridge Companion to Fiction in the Romantic Period by More Reference Works
Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850 by 
Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain, 1780s-1830s by 
