English Romantic Poetry

<p>Encompassing a broad range of subjects styles and moods English poetry of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is generally classified under the term Romantic suggesting an emphasis on imagination and individual experience as well as a preoccupation with such theme as nature death and the supernatural.<br>This volume contains a rich selection of poems by England's six greatest poets: William Blake (24 poems including The Tyger and Auguries of Innocence) William Wordsworth (27 poems including Ode: Intimations of Immortality and I wandered lonely as a cloud) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan) Lord Byron (16 poems including The Prisoner of Chillon and selections from <i>Don Juan</i> and <i>Childe Harold's Pilgrimage</i>) Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems including Ode to the West Wind and Adonis) John Keats (22 poems including all the great odes Isabella and The Eve of St. Agnes).<br>For this edition Stanley Appelbaum has provided a concise Introduction to the Romantic period and brief commentaries on the poets represented. The result is a carefully selected anthology that will be welcomed by lovers of poetry students and teachers alike.<br></p>