This volume seeks to draw the history of Finnish Romanticism into larger, contemporary discussions of European and Global Romanticism, in which Finnish cultural achievements have too often been neglected. Twenty years ago, outside of Finland, there was little by way of discussion in Romantic scholarship of Finnish Romanticism. In his anthology, European Romantic Poetry, for example, Michael Ferber (2005) included poets from Scotland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, Poland, and Hungary, but none from Finland. Nor is there any discussion of Finnish authors or artists in any of the 18 essays of Gerhart Hoffmeister’s (1990) European Romanticism: Literary Cross-Currents, Modes, and Models, though its stated aim is to address “[t]he interdependence of national Romanticisms” (11). There is no mention of Finland in the 41 essays in the more recent Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism, edited by Paul Hamilton (2016), or in Warren Breckman’s (2008) popular anthology, European Romanticism: A Brief History with Documents. Over the past two decades, this has started to change, particularly because of the development of the scholarly field of Nordic Romanticism, which seeks to advance a model of regional Romanticisms in “networks of cultural exchange” across national traditions (Duffy and Rix 2022, xix; see also Rix 2015; Duffy 2017). It was at the dawn of Finnish Romanticism that Finland, in 1809, was separated from Swedish governance, so it is perhaps fitting that recognition of Finnish Romanticism outside of Finland develop first in this regional context. This collection, however, aims to bring Finnish Romanticism to even larger discussions of Romanticism, as well as to introduce relevant, contemporary Finnish scholarship to a wider, international audience.