English Romantic Writers

by David Perkins

Hardcover, 1994

Call number

820.8 PERK

Publication

Cengage Learning (1994), Edition: 2, 1392 pages

Description

ENGLISH ROMANTIC WRITERS offers selections from authors who have traditionally held a large place in our consciousness of English Romanticism, but it also includes other figures--especially women--who have been less emphasized in the past. The intellectual discourses of the age concerning governance, politics, the impact of the French Revolution, gender and the status of women, the nature of nature and of human psychology, and the theory of literature and art are represented in the prose and poetry of writers like Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Shelleys, and Keats.

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LibraryThing member shootingstarr7
This anthology provides a detailed array of the works of the traditional English Romantic writers. Though the major six (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats) get the most space within the text, it also provides a strong sampling of other poets of the time. Poetry is the primary
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focus, but Perkins has also included some of the prose works of these authors as well. Particularly enlightening is the inclusion of the journals of Dorothy Wordsworth: they provide an interesting balance to the poems of Coleridge and William Wordsworth, and help to paint a more complete picture of the subjects of their poems. Though it is a large volume, it is also quite complete. I gained a much deeper appreciation for Romantic poetry with this textbook.
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LibraryThing member emclem
This anthology is one of the best I've found of Romantic Poetry. It contains mostly poetry, but also some prose writers, including the prose (mostly essays) of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, etc. The only negative about this book is its considerable heft, which is not good for walking to class.
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It's durable, though, and lays flat while you read it, which is fantastic for paper-writing.
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Pages

1392

ISBN

0155016881 / 9780155016880
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