A history of the Romantic Movement told like an intellectual soap opera. Read about the lives of Chenier, Hugo, Paganini, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, Goethe, Kleist, Madame de Stael. Not so different from the artists who stoked the cultural revolutions of the 1960's. Minor distress to jacket. G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY. 1988. Hb, Dj. USED. $9.00