Romanticism: An Anthology (Blackwell Anthologies) - Hardcover

This work provides a selection of poetry and prose by the British Romantics - containing, in addition to work by the six major poets, a wide-ranging selection by writers in other genres. It features complete and uncut texts of: Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience"; Wordsworth's and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads"; Wordsworth's "The Thirteen-Book Prelude"; Keats' "The Odes" and "The Fall of Hyperion"; Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound"; and Byron's "Manfred", "Don Juan Dedication" and "Canto I". "Romanticism: an Anthology" reflects recent developments in Romantic scholarship, particularly in the expansion of the literary canon. Women writers represented include: Anna Seward; Hannah More; Charlotte Smith; Ann Yearsley; Mary Robinson; Mary Wollstonecraft; Joanna Baillie; Helen Maria Williams; Ann Radcliffe; Maria Edgeworth; Dorothy Wordsworth; Mary Russell Mitford; Mary Shelley; Felicia Hemans; and Laetita Landon. It includes extracts of works by political and philosophical writers: Thomas Paine; Edmund Burke; Richard Price; William Godwin; John Thelwall; William Frend; James Mackintosh. It also represents diarists, painters, balladeers, reviewers and letter-writers. All texts derive from either the earliest available printed or manuscript source.