Romantic Poetry Reader
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- c. 1789-1832
- Form
- Lyric poetry
- Language
- English
- Length
- Medium · 200 pp120 to 300 pages
- Difficulty
- Demanding3 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendRomanticism: An AnthologyWiley-Blackwell, 2012Duncan Wu's fourth edition covers the six major poets and many others with reliable texts and notes; any good Romantic anthology will do.
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Not a single book but a course reader of English Romantic poems, roughly the generation between the French Revolution and the Reform Act. A typical selection includes Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey and the Immortality Ode, Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan, Byron, Shelley's Mont Blanc and Ode to the West Wind, and Keats's odes. Common threads are nature, the imagination, childhood, revolution and the poet's own mind.
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The catalogue entry above is complete: the dates, the form, the themes and every program that assigns Romantic Poetry Reader are verified against each program's published list.
What is missing is the part that takes real work: the summary, the key passages, and a recommended translation. The edition named below is the one most programs assign, so the buy links are useful already.
