English Romantic Verse

<b>English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence. </b>Nearly all the famous piéces de résistance will be found here - <i>'Intimations of Immortality'</i>, <i>'The Ancient Mariner'</i>, <i>'The Tyger'</i>, excerpts from <i>'Don Juan'</i> - 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 <i>Romantics</i> as a historical phenomenon, and points out their central ideals and themes. <b>English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence. </b>Nearly all the famous piéces de résistance will be found here - <i>'Intimations of Immortality'</i>, <i>'The Ancient Mariner'</i>, <i>'The Tyger'</i>, excerpts from <i>'Don Juan'</i> - 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 <i>Romantics</i> as a historical phenomenon, and points out their central ideals and themes.