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Romanticism Duncan Wu

Romanticism By Duncan Wu

Romanticism by Duncan Wu


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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".

Romanticism Summary

Romanticism: An Anthology by Duncan Wu

This new edition of the groundbreaking Romanticism: An Anthology is the only book of its kind to contain 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', 'This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison', 'Frost at Midnight', and 'The Ancient Mariner'; Shelley's Prometheus Unbound , Epipsychidion and Adonais; Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III and Don Juan Dedication and Cantos I and II; and Keats's Odes , the two Hyperions , Lamia , Isabella and The Eve of St Agnes . It also carries explanatory annotations and author headnotes. Updated to incorporate the latest scholarly findings, it remains the essential text on Romanticism. Don Juan Dedication and Cantos I and II; and Keats's Odes , the two Hyperions , Lamia , Isabella and The Eve of St Agnes . It also carries explanatory annotations and author headnotes. Updated to incorporate the latest scholarly findings, it remains the essential text on Romanticism. Includes all texts from the third edition, with the addition of Keats's Isabella and Shelley's Epipsychidion , as well as a selection of the poems of Walter Scott Includes a wider and deeper selection of texts by the Big Six male poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron and Shelley) than any competing volume Includes a generous range of texts by female Romantic poets All editorial materials, including annotations, author headnotes, and prefatory materials, have been revised for the new edition The only book to contain complete texts, edited for this volume from manuscript and early printed sources by Wu, along with explanatory annotations and author headnotes Contains everything teachers and students require for an in-depth survey of the principal writings to emerge from the British Romantic period The most widely-used teaching anthology in the field in the UK Companion website features a dynamic timeline detailing significant events of the romantic period and providing images, suggestions for further reading and useful links to other online resources: www.romanticismanthology.com

Romanticism Reviews

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 being presented in their first printed version, sometimes by the juxtaposition implied by Wu's canny practice of the anthologizer's art. David Latane, Virginia Commonwealth University The Wu 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. The flames of that excitement are fed by generous cords of minor poets and major essayists, carefully selected, intelligently bundled. But even the old-growth timber of the major poets burns with a brighter flame by being most provocatively introduced, brilliantly edited (especially Blake), and stacked against the kindling of the lesser lyricists. The combination of earlier and revised versions of the same poem is dazzlingly illuminating. One might say of Wu's Romanticism: An Anthology, in comparison to any other collection, what Wu himself says in introducing the early use of the term Romanticism: "Romanticism was 'organic' and 'plastic,' as against the 'mechanical' tendencies of Classicism." Perhaps the anthology itself cannot keep growing in subsequent editions without becoming unwieldy; but the enthusiasm it generates can grow without bounds and will prove both "organic"--well rooted in accurate, historically placed texts--and "plastic," ever subject to imaginative reshaping. Leslie Brisman, Yale University The fourth edition of Duncan Wu s Romanticism: An Anthology offers the perfect combination of breadth and depth. It contains a superb selection of literary texts with thought-provoking annotations and contextual materials that help bring the Romantic era to life. Kim Wheatley, College of William and Mary No one familiar with Duncan Wu's impressive body of Romantic period scholarship and criticism will be surprised at the high quality of Romanticism: An Anthology. I have chosen it for my "British Romantic Poetry" as this text is superior to any other available in its combination of essential canonical poetry with an astute selection of other literature, including extensive representation of women writers. Paul Betz, Georgetown University

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 Society.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations xxviii List of Plates xxix Abbreviations xxx Introduction xxxii Editor's Note on the Fourth Edition xlv Editorial Principles xlvi Acknowledgements xlviii A Romantic Timeline 1770 1851 li Richard Price (1723 1791) 3 Thomas Warton (1728 1790) 6 Edmund Burke (1729/30 1797) 8 William Cowper (1731 1800) 17 Thomas Paine (1737 1809) 24 Anna Seward (1742 1809) 29 Anna Laetitia Barbauld (nee Aikin) (1743 1825) 34 Hannah More (1745 1833) 55 Charlotte Smith (nee Turner) (1749 1806) 81 George Crabbe (1754 1832) 146 William Godwin (1756 1836) 155 Ann Yearsley (nee Cromartie) (1756 1806) 160 William Blake (1757 1827) 174 Mary Robinson (nee Darby) (1758 1800) 250 Robert Burns (1759 1796) 265 Mary Wollstonecraft (1759 1797) 281 Helen Maria Williams (1761 1827) 291 Joanna Baillie (1762 1851) 313 William Lisle Bowles (1762 1851) 321 John Thelwall (1764 1834) 322 William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798) 333 William Wordsworth (1770 1850) 420 Sir Walter Scott (1771 1832) 597 Dorothy Wordsworth (1771 1855) 603 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 1834) 611 Francis, Lord Jeffrey (1773 1850) 734 Robert Southey (1774 1843) 741 Charles Lamb (1775 1834) 756 William Hazlitt (1778 1830) 774 James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784 1859) 816 Thomas De Quincey (1785 1859) 829 Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786 1846) 858 George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788 1824) 862 Richard Woodhouse, Jr (1788 1834) 1067 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 1822) 1070 John Clare (1793 1864) 1271 Felicia Dorothea Hemans (nee Browne) (1793 1835) 1290 John Gibson Lockhart (1794 1854) 1375 John Keats (1795 1821) 1384 Hartley Coleridge (1796 1849) 1503 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (nee Godwin) (1797 1851) 1505 Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802 1838) 1512 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 1861) 1532 Index of First Lines 1538 Index to Headnotes and Notes 1543

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GOR004672751
9781405190756
1405190752
Romanticism: An Anthology by Duncan Wu
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
2012-02-20
1656
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