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English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence. Nearly all the famous piéces de résistance 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.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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David Wright here gives us a great little selection of romantic verse as well as an introduction on romanticism, what it means and its central ideas and ideals, as well as its historic context. As well as the great romantic poets which need no mentioning we are here provided with others that have not favoured so well, as well as being given poets and poems which can be seen as the precusor to romantic verse, as well as some others who can be seen as the transistion away from romanticism. Although did romanticism ever really leave us?
With something like 36 poets there are a great number of poems here, and the most famous are more or less here. Because of space requirements of course you don't get Wordsworth's The Prelude, only a couple of fragments, and some poems have been left out due to the length of them, with less famous works taking their place.
All in all this is a great book for those into romantic verse, and there are plenty of footnotes. Even if you are not into romanticism this may help change your mind, so it would be a good present for someone into poetry.
With something like 36 poets there are a great number of poems here, and the most famous are more or less here. Because of space requirements of course you don't get Wordsworth's The Prelude, only a couple of fragments, and some poems have been left out due to the length of them, with less famous works taking their place.
All in all this is a great book for those into romantic verse, and there are plenty of footnotes. Even if you are not into romanticism this may help change your mind, so it would be a good present for someone into poetry.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Not enough background.
25 Jan 2001
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This book contains some excellent poetry in it that is worth reading. The introduction to the book is a fascinating attempt to explain the Romantic Era as a reaction to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The problem is that the book does not include very much information about the individual poets, or the poems themselves. There are only a few mentionings confined to the introduction, which is not enough. The Romantic Era is a period during which it is especially important to have information about the authors and poems, whose lives were often fascinating in their own.
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The greatness of English Romantic poetry
28 Oct 2005
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English poetry is one of the great bodies of Poetry in the world. English Romantic Poetry is one of the great summits of English Poetry. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats- these four in and by themselves constitute an incredible concentration of poetry at its best.
There are of course many collections of 'English Romantic Poetry' and this Penguin one includes most of the great works.
Ordinarily English Romantic poetry is dated from 1798 with the publication of the 'Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth and Coleridge'. And though Wordsworth went on to write into the Victorian Period the great poetry is pretty finished in the early 1820's with the deaths of Shelley and Keats.
English Romantic Poetry gave a new freedom and richness of expression to the Language. Most often it is contrasted with the Poetry of Dryden- Pope which has come before. The Classic Poetry is the ' bucket or container' and the Romantic Poetry the spontaneous overflowing well.
There are of course many collections of 'English Romantic Poetry' and this Penguin one includes most of the great works.
Ordinarily English Romantic poetry is dated from 1798 with the publication of the 'Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth and Coleridge'. And though Wordsworth went on to write into the Victorian Period the great poetry is pretty finished in the early 1820's with the deaths of Shelley and Keats.
English Romantic Poetry gave a new freedom and richness of expression to the Language. Most often it is contrasted with the Poetry of Dryden- Pope which has come before. The Classic Poetry is the ' bucket or container' and the Romantic Poetry the spontaneous overflowing well.
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