A fundamental document to understand the European sensitivity and mentality of the last century, this work is already a classic of literary historiography and criticism. In his search and fixation of recurring themes, Mario Praz visits the darker side of the French, English and Italian literatures of Romanticism, and determines exactly the means through which these hidden themes were transmitted, already the time so familiar among artists. In this book, Praz poses in a very attractive way — even for a reader not specialized in historical, literary, and psychological problems — that link, showing a subtle affinity with the strange, ambiguous, visionary, or sublime personalities that constitute his object of analysis.