- Paperback: 1184 pages
- Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 2nd New edition of Revised edition edition (22 Sep 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0631222693
- ISBN-13: 978-0631222699
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.3 x 3.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 364,424 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The editor has added more pedagogical material by way of expanding author head–notes, comprising biographical detail, critical introductions to the texts and lists of further reading. Many of the entries are more fully annotated and clearly subtitled." Year′s Work in English Studies <!––end––>
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The second edition of Romanticism: An Anthology is widely regarded as the most comprehensive collection available of poetry and prose by the British Romantics. This magnificent Anthology is now available as a package with David Miall and Duncan Wu′s revolutionary Romanticism: The CD–ROM.
Both works reflect recent developments in Romantic scholarship, particularly in the expansion of the literary canon. Alongside unabridged texts from canonical writers are works by women and writers in other genres, including political and philosophical writers, diarists, painters, broadside–balladeers, reviewers and letter–writers.
Additions for the second edition of the Anthology include Wordsworth′s The Ruined Cottage, The Pedlar, Michael, The Brothers, and extracts from The Five–Book Prelude, and the Fourteen–Book Prelude; Coleridge′s This Lime–Tree Bower My Prison, Kubla Khan, The Pains of Sleep, Dejection: An Ode, The Eolian Harp, and Frost at Midnight; Byron′s Stanzas to Augusta, Epistle to Augusta and Don Juan Canto II.
Substantial editorial material includes an introduction exploring the phenomenon of romanticism; detailed annotations and author headnotes providing biographical details; lists of significant recent criticism and in many cases brief critical introductions.
The unique, easy to use CD–ROM both incorporates the anthology (in its first edition, including Wordsworth′s Prelude (1805) in its entirety) and provides substantial selections from over ninety other writers. Built–in hypertext links enable readers to experience the intertextuality of writing during this period and understand the cultural context in which the texts were created.
The CD–ROM offers a huge range of resources including:
- More than 1200 high–quality graphics, including illustrations, prints and paintings; scenes from the English Lake District, the Alps, and the ruins of Rome and Pompeii; photographs of landscapes and detailed maps.
- Chronologies.
- A biographic dictionary of the key figures of the period.
- A ′tours′ feature, which enables teachers or students to build their own routes through the CD–ROM or to take preset introductory tours e.g. through ′slavery′.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I used this text in the final year of my English degree and found it extremely useful. It is easy to find your way around, as it should be in any good anthology, and the author introductions are stimulating inasmuch as they provide enough information to make you want to track the authors down and learn more. The range of authors in the text is very broad and combines the easily recognisable poets of the more traditional literary canon with lesser known, but equally thought provoking, writers. The annotations are extensive and as much as they are useful, they can hamper the reader's engagement with the poems. It is always useful to know the meaning of unrecognisable words, but it can be a little annoying to have suggestions made as to how you should interpret the work. Don't let this put you off though. This is a great book that provides a brilliant starting point for anyone interested in Romanticism.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Wu's text is a staple of most undergraduate romanticism courses, so you will almost inevitably have to buy this if you decide to study in that direction (as I did!). The layout of the book is excellent, plenty of room for you to annotate in the margins. The introductions to each of the writers give you a really good insight into their historical context and personal background. Wu's fotnotes are excellent and clear. However, I have one slight criticism of the text. It centres too much on Wordsworth and the other big six, and if you want to impress your tutor or gain a greater understanding of romantic literature I would advise you to read around the writers Wu marginalises. In particular, he sidelines Robert Burns and Hannah More, two writers who demonstrate the diversity of this period. Despite this,the anthology gently introduces you to ideas and writers of this period.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
While the poems delight and instruct, editor Duncan Wu has an obvious gender problem. He calls the female poets by their first name, while the male poets are addressed by their surnames. He also includes far too much detail on men & male relatives in his headnotes of female authors (cf. his headnote on Cristall). I urge an egalitarian third edition! For this reason, I'm decidedly reluctant to investigate Wu's "Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology" (1997).
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For those buying this as a undergraduate text.
For an undergraduate (recommended) text this, disappointingly, does not live up to its copious content. Read more
Published on 27 Nov 2007 by mykonos
Romanticism
This Anthology is vital if you are studying or are interested in the Romantic period of literature. It spans the arguments of urke and Paine, branching into the Shelleys, Godwin,... Read more
Published on 5 Nov 2003 by Ms. F. R. Donnelly
Not bad at all!
I bought this book because I had to for my university module on Romanticism. Usually anthologies are heavy and made out of rizla paper that rips whenever you turn the page. Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2003
brilliant book -- a bargain at the price
This is a brilliantly presented anthology. Lots of good notes, lots of good introductions. And a sexy cover. We use it in class at my local high school and I really like it.
Published on 7 Jan 2000
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