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English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)
by William Blake; William Wordsworth; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Lord Byron; Percy Bysshe Shelley; John Keats
Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles, and moods, English
poetry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is
generally classified under the term "Romantic," suggesting an emphasis
on imagination and individual experience, as well as a preoccupation
with such theme as nature, death, and the supernatural.
This volume
contains a rich selection of poems by England's six greatest poets:
William Blake (24 poems, including "The Tyger" and "Auguries of
Innocence"), William Wordsworth (27 poems, including "Ode: Intimations
of Immortality" and "I wandered lonely as a cloud"), Samuel Taylor
Coleridge (10 poems, including "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and
"Kubla Khan"), Lord Byron (16 poems, including "The Prisoner of Chillon"
and selections from Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage),
Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems, including "Ode to the West Wind" and
"Adonis"), John Keats (22 poems, including all the great odes,
"Isabella," and "The Eve of St. Agnes").
For this edition, Stanley
Appelbaum has provided a concise Introduction to the Romantic period and
brief commentaries on the poets represented. The result is a carefully
selected anthology that will be welcomed by lovers of poetry, students,
and teachers alike.