PENGUIN English Romantic Verse

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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. Review: Excellent collection - Just what I was looking for, a great collection of diverse styles from an incredible era of poetry. Still progressing through it. Many names I have not encountered and probably wouldn't have found, outside a collection like this. Book arrived in timely manner and was in the condition advertised. Review: Disappointing stat - I expected the book to arrive in better condition . Well you live and learn .