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Romanticism: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies)

Romanticism: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies)

by Duncan Wu (Editor)

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    Paperback 2005

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Since it was first published in 1995, Duncan Wu's Romanticism: An Anthology has been used and appreciated by thousands of literature students and their teachers across the globe. Now, in response to feedback from the classroom, and extensive research into the needs of lecturers, Romanticism is back in a completely revised and expanded third edition.New additions for the third edition: completely revised and updated headnotes and footnotes, incorporating the latest scholarly insights Up-to-date lists of critical reading for each author; now features 36 illustrations, including 16 colour illustrations; a chronology; an entirely new introduction; an in-depth selection of works by major women Romantic poets, including complete texts of Hannah More, Sensibility (1782) and Slavery (1788); Ann Yearsley, Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade (1788); Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (1786), The Emigrants (1793) and Beachy Head (1807); Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812); Helen Maria Williams, A Farewell, for two years, to England (1791); and, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Records of Woman sequence (all 19 poems) (1828); and, enhanced selections for Wordsworth, Hazlitt, Coleridge and Shelley (among others). Romanticism: An Anthology remains thinly textbook of its kind to include complete and uncut texts of: Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798); Wordsworth, The Ruined Cottage , The Pedlar and other Recluse fragments (1798); Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (1786); Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Records of Woman sequence (all 19 poems) (1828); and, Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III and Don Juan Dedication, Cantos I and II . All of the featured texts have been edited especially for students for this volume - from manuscript and early printed sources - by Duncan Wu.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 1552
 Edition: 3rd Edition
 Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Published: 22 Aug 2005
ISBN 10: 1405120851
ISBN 13: 9781405120852

Media Reviews
In the third edition of his groundbreaking Romanticism: An Anthology, Duncan Wu has made a very good text even better. For those interested in stirring the familiar ingredients (Blake to Byron) back into the rich soup of the times in which they dwelt, this anthology offers the best opportunity. Wu gives us the texts of familiar poems made strange--sometimes by being presented in their first printed version, sometimes by the juxtaposition implied by Wu's canny practice of the anthologizer's art. David Latane, Virginia Commonwealth University The Wu anthology, even more magnificent and indispensable in its Third Edition, is not simply the most useful or the most learned anthology of English Romantic poetry and thought; it is the most exciting. The flames of that excitement are fed by generous cords of minor poets and major essayists, carefully selected, intelligently bundled. But even the old-growth timber of the major poets burns with a brighter flame by being most provocatively introduced, brilliantly edited (especially Blake), and stacked against the kindling of the lesser lyricists. The combination of earlier and revised versions of the same poem is dazzlingly illuminating. One might say of Wu's Romanticism: An Anthology, in comparison to any other collection, what Wu himself says in introducing the early use of the term Romanticism: Romanticism was 'organic' and 'plastic,' as against the 'mechanical' tendencies of Classicism. Perhaps the anthology itself cannot keep growing in subsequent editions without becoming unwieldy; but the enthusiasm it generates can grow without bounds and will prove both organic --well rooted in accurate, historically placed texts--and plastic, ever subject to imaginative reshaping. Leslie Brisman, Yale University The third edition of Duncan Wu's Romanticism is an outstanding anthology, an excellent choice for advanced undergraduate courses on the Romantic era. This edition's improvements include illustrations, a detailed chronology, and expanded selections from women poets. Early and late versions of crucial poems such as Coleridge's This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison are now placed together for easier comparison. I look forward to using this edition of Romanticism for years to come. Kim Wheatley, College of William and Mary No one familiar with Duncan Wu's impressive body of Romantic period scholarship and criticism will be surprised at the high quality of Romanticism: An Anthology. I have chosen it for my British Romantic Poetry as this text is superior to any other available in its combination of essential canonical poetry with an astute selection of other literature, including extensive representation of women writers. Paul Betz, Georgetown University
Author Bio
Duncan Wu is a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in English Literature. His numerous publications include A Companion to Romanticism (1997) Romanticism: A Critical Reader (1995), Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology (1997), an edition of William Wordsworth's The Five-Book Prelude (1997) and, with Tom Paulin, of William Hazlitt's The Plain-Speaker: Key Essays (1998), all available from Blackwell Publishing. He is also the editor of a nine volume edition of The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt (1998).