The Romantic Agony - Oxford Paperbacks Author:Mario Praz 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-century counterparts makes this account of the Romantic-Deca... more »dents an indispensible guide to the study of modern literature.« less