The New Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry

The New Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry

by JonathanWordsworth (Editor), JessicaWordsworth (Editor)

Synopsis

Organized by theme and genre, this collection reveals unexpected connections and shared preoccupations, which should enable the reader to view the Romantics in a fresh light. Thus Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley appear as masters of comedy; Burns and Byron speak of the relationship between man and nature; and Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal. The acknowledged genius of Blake's Tyger , Coleridge's Kubla Khan and Shelley's Ozymandias is set alongside verse from less familiar figures, including a strong representation of women poets such as Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 1056
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 29 May 2003

ISBN 10: 0140589341
ISBN 13: 9780140589344

Media Reviews
aAn absolutely fascinating selectionanotable for its women poets, its intriguing thematic categories, and its helpful mini-biographies.a (Richard Holmes)
Author Bio
Jonathan Wordsworth, a descendant of William, is Chairman of the Wordsworth Trust & retired Professor of English Literature at Oxford. He has edited and written widely on Romantic poetry, including The Prelude: Four Texts (Penguin). Jessica Wordsworth is editing Coleridge's selected poems for Penguin.