English Romantic Verse (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Wright, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140421025 ISBN 13: 9780140421026

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1973

Synopsis

English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence. Nearly all the famous pieces de resistance will be found here - 'Intimations of Immortality', 'The Ancient Mariner', 'The Tyger', excerpts from 'Don Juan' - as well as some less familiar poems. As far as 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 Romantics - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Clare and Keats - although 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 the Romantics as a historical phenomenon, and points out their central ideals and themes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1973
• ISBN 10: 0140421025
• ISBN 13: 9780140421026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Wright David