Warren Breckman is the Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. A cultural and intellectual historian of modern Europe, his other books include Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory (1999) and Adventures of the Symbolic: Post-marxism and Radical Democracy (2013). He is the executive co-editor of the Journal of the History of Ideas.

"The complexity and range of European Romanticism cannot be conveyed to students by assigning only one or two texts; at the same time, students need a clear and confident guide if they are not going to become lost in a maze of texts and interpretations. Breckman's book meets these competing demands. His Introduction, in particular, provides one of the clearest and most coherent accounts of Romanticism that I have ever read, one that is informed by recent trends in literary criticism and philosophy but that keeps its focus firmly on the Romantics themselves." --George Williamson, University of Alabama