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Duncan Wu - Romanticism: An Anthology - 9781405190756 - V9781405190756
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Romanticism: An Anthology

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Description for Romanticism: An Anthology Paperback. Contains complete texts of a wide range of Romantic works, including Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience", "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Urizen"; Wordsworth and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads" (1798); Wordsworth's "Two-Part Prelude"; early and revised versions of Coleridge's "The Eolian Harp", and "The Ancient Mariner". Editor(s): Wu, Duncan. Series: Blackwell Anthologies. Num Pages: 1656 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DQ; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 172 x 50. Weight in Grams: 2248.
ROMANTICISM

Praise for the third edition:

“An outstanding anthology, an excellent choice for advanced undergraduate courses on the Romantic era. This edition’s improvements include illustrations, a detailed chronology, and expanded selections from women poets. I look forward to using this edition of Romanticism for years to come.” Kim Wheatley, College of William and Mary

“This anthology, even more magnificent and indispensable in its Third Edition, is not simply the most useful or the most learned anthology of English Romantic poetry and thought; it is the most exciting.” Leslie Brisman, Yale University

Duncan Wu’s Romanticism: An Anthology has been appreciated by ... Read more

Romanticism: An Anthology remains the only textbook of its kind to include complete and uncut texts of:

  • Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798)
  • Wordsworth, The Ruined Cottage, The Pedlar, The Two-Part Prelude, Michael, The Brothers and the Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800)
  • Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (3rd edn, 1786), The Emigrants, Beachy Head
  • Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Records of Woman sequence (all 19 poems)
  • Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto III and Don Juan Dedication and Cantos I and II
  • Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Urizen
  • Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, Epipsychidion, The Mask of Anarchy and Adonais
  • Keats, Odes, the two Hyperions, Lamia, Isabella and The Eve of St Agnes
  • Hannah More, Sensibility and Slavery: A Poem
  • Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven
  • Ann Yearsley, A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade
  • Helen Maria Williams, A Farewell, for two years, to England

As well as generous selections from the works of Mary Robinson, John Thelwall, Dorothy Wordsworth, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, John Clare, Letitia Landon and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Visit www.romanticismanthology.com for resources to accompany the anthology, including a dynamic timeline which illustrates key historical and literary events during the Romantic period and features links to useful materials and visual media.

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Product Details

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
1656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Blackwell Anthologies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1640
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405190756
SKU
V9781405190756
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-2

About Duncan Wu
Duncan Wu is Professor of English at Georgetown University, a former Professor of English Literature at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His publications include A Companion to Romanticism (Blackwell, 1997) and Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology (Blackwell, 1997). He is Vice-Chairman of the Keats–Shelley Memorial Association and The Charles Lamb ... Read more

Reviews for Romanticism: An Anthology
“In the third edition of his groundbreaking Romanticism: An Anthology, Duncan Wu has made a very good text even better. For those interested in stirring the familiar ingredients (Blake to Byron) back into the rich soup of the times in which they dwelt, this anthology offers the best opportunity. Wu gives us the texts of familiar poems made strange
sometimes by ... Read more

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