Romantic Poetry An Annotated Anthology [Paperback]

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.

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• 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

Selected Contents by Theme.

List of Plates.

Note on Texts and Editorial Method.

Index of Themes.

Chronology of Events and Poetic Landmarks.

Introduction: Romantic Doubleness.

Acknowledgements.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld, neé Aikin (1743--1825).

The Rights of Woman.

Inscription for an Ice-House.

To Mr. S. T. Coleridge.

Charlotte Smith, neé Turner (1749--1806).

Sonnet 1 ['The partial Muse, has from my earliest hours'].

Sonnet VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale.

Sonnet XII. Written on the Sea Shore. – October, 1784.

Sonnet XXX. To the River Arun.

Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy.

Sonnet XXXIX. To Night.

Sonnet XLIV. Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex.

William Blake (1757--1827).

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