In his study, The Romantics and their Uses of Genre (2009), David Duff systematically explores the ways in which Romantic writers and theorists in Britain effectively and fruitfully utilized the issue of genre and their literary tradition, as it had been established in the Western cultural scene until the end of the eighteenth century. The findings of his research clearly and energetically demonstrate that Romanticism in Britain did not overthrow the notion of genre, but rather redefined it radically within its own original literary, artistic, aesthetic, and philosophical horizon, where a synthetic blend of conventional genre categories prevailed and their reorientation towards radically innovative literary, theoretical, and critical realizations, as seen in the works of iconic Romantic poets: William Blake, S. T. Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, P. B. Shelley, and John Keats.