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Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell Annotated Anthologies)

Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology (Blackwell Annotated Anthologies)

by Michael O ' Neill (Editor), Charles Mahoney (Editor)

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Synopsis

Easily adaptable as both an anthology and an insightful guide to reading and understanding Romantic Poetry, this text discusses the important elements in the works from poets such as Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Barbauld, Byron, Shelley, Hemans, Keats and Landon. * Offers a thorough examination of the essential elements of Romantic Poetry * Highly selective, the text examines each of its poems in great detail * Discusses theme, genre, structure, rhyme, form, imagery, and poetic influence * Helpful head notes and annotations provide relevant contextual information and in-depth commentary

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 496
 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 31 Aug 2007
ISBN 10: 0631213171
ISBN 13: 9780631213178

Media Reviews
This poetry anthology is impressive because of its carefully lucid headnotes and footnotes, its thematic contents lists and its textual reliability, all of which are a very high order. (BARS Bulletin & Review, July 2008) The editors have a particular commitment to the role that an appreciation of poetic form can play in critical understanding, and it is on account of this formal detail that the anthology is so valuable. Introductory headnotes elucidate the subtleties of each poem's craft, while footnotes comment on line endings, rhyme patterns, and other features of the text. Some comments are so brilliantly incisive as to deserve separate publication, such as the account of the metre of Christabel: 'each line seems like a stealthy event' (p. 207). Without question, this is by far the best way that any reader could be introduced to these poets, and the anthology is careful not to suggest that an attention to poetic detail precludes other types of investigation. Understanding how a poem creates meaning, however, is the vital first step, and for this reason Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology will doubtless be the standard teaching anthology for many years. Year's Work of English Studies (2010)
Author Bio
Michael O'Neill is Professor of English at Durham University. He is currently a Director of the University's Institute of Advanced Study. He has published books, chapters, and articles on many aspects of Romantic and twentieth-century poetry, and received a Cholmondeley Award for Poets for his own poetry in 1990. His latest monograph is The All-Sustaining Air: Romantic Legacies and Renewals in British, American, and Irish Poetry since 1900 (2007). Charles Mahoney is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where he is also currently the Associate Director of the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. He has published on a number of Romantic writers, including William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt, and is presently at work on a project entitled Revolutionary Measures: Romanticism, Formalism, Criticism.