English Romantic Verse (Penguin Classics)

English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence

Nearly all the famous pices de rsistance will be found here Intimations of Immortality, The Ancient Mariner, The Tyger, excerpts fromDon Juans well as some less familiar poems. As muchas possible, the poets are arranged in chronological order, and their poems in order of composition, beginning with eighteenth-century precursors such as Gray, Cowper, Burns, and Chatterton. Naturally, most space has been given over to the major RomanticsBlake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Clare, and Keatsalthough their successors, poets such as Beddoes and Poe, are included, too, as well as early poems by Tennyson and Browning. In an excellent introduction, David Wright discusses theRomanticsas a historical phenomenon, and points out their central ideals and themes.

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