Ebook: English Romantic Verse
Author: Wright David
- Tags: Poésie anglaise--18e siècle, Poésie anglaise--19e siècle, POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), Romantisme--Grande-Bretagne, Romantisme (mouvement littéraire), English poetry--18th century, English poetry--19th century, English poetry, Electronic books, English poetry -- 18th century, English poetry -- 19th century, Poésie anglaise -- 18e siècle, Romantisme -- Grande-Bretagne, Poésie anglaise -- 19e siècle, Romantisme (mouvement littéraire)
- Series: Penguin classics
- Year: 1968
- Publisher: Penguin Group USA
- City: Harmondsworth;Middlesex;England;New York;N.Y;U.S.A
- Language: English
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English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence. Nearly all the famous piéces de résistance will be found here - 'Intimations of Immortality', 'The Ancient Mariner', 'The Tyger', excerpts from 'Don Juan' - as well as some less familiar poems. As far as possible the poets are arranged in chronological order, and their poems in order of composition, beginning with eighteenth-century precursors such as Gray, Cowper, Burns and Chatterton. Naturally most space has been given over to the major Romantics - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Clare and Keats - although their successors, poets such as Beddoes and Poe, are included too, as well as early poems by Tennyson and Browning. In an excellent introduction David Wright discusses the Romantics as a historical phenomenon, and points out their central ideals and themes.