The great benefit of this book is the multi-visoned orientation. The articles are collected from diverse authors in such a way that, read as a whole it yields many good insights into the movement that swept Europe at the beginning of the 18th century. There are alos articles devoted to aesthetics across europe. Unfortunately it is limited to mainly England, Germany, France, and Italy. While these are arguabely the moswt important Romantic countries, there are only brief articles on Spain, Poland and Russia. There is no study of Scandinavia or Hungary.