Download or read book The Romantic Agony written by Mario Praz and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this now-classic study, Praz describes the whole of Romantic literature under one of its most characteristic aspects, that of erotic sensibility. This wide spread mood in literature had a major effect on 19th-century poets and painters, and the affinities between them and their 20th-centurycounterparts makes this account of the Romantic-Decadents an indispensible guide to the study of modern literature.