Tracing English Romantic poetry from its earliest stirrings through to the first hints of its decline, this anthology gathers nearly all the great landmark poems of the movement — ‘Intimations of Immortality’, ‘The Ancient Mariner’, ‘The Tyger’, passages from ‘Don Juan’ — alongside lesser-known works that reward discovery. The poets are presented chronologically, their poems arranged in order of composition, opening with eighteenth-century forerunners including Gray, Cowper, Burns and Chatterton. The lion’s share of space goes to the movement’s towering figures — Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Clare and Keats — though their successors also appear: Beddoes, Poe, and early verse by Tennyson and Browning. David Wright’s substantial introduction considers the Romantics as a historical phenomenon, identifying their defining themes and the ideals at the heart of the movement.
ISBN 13: 9780140421026
Author: David Wright
