Blackwell Publishing, 2005, 1477 pages. 3rd edition. Some shelf wear and damage to extremities.
Since it was first published in 1994, Romanticism: An Anthology has been widely praised for the range and diversity of the texts it includes, and for making entire books of poetry available to readers, rather than extracts. Now available in a thoroughly revised third edition, the Anthology contains key works by all of the canonical writers of the Romantic period, including complete and unabridged texts of: Blake's, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, and Urizen; Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads; Wordsworth's The Ruined Cottage, The PedlaR, The Two-Part Prelude, Michael, The Brothers, and Preface to Lyrical Ballads; Coleridge's Conversation poems, Christabel, and The Ancient Mariner; Byron's' Manfred, Don Juan - Dedication and Cantos I and II; Shelley's Alastor, Prometheus Unbound, The Mask of Anarchy and Adonais; Keats's Odes, the two Hyperions, and Lamia. It is the only anthology of its kind also to contain complete texts of the following essential works by female poets: Hannah More's Sensibility and Slavery; Anna Laetitia Barbauld's Eighteen Hundred and Eleven; Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets, The Emigrants and Beachy Head; Ann Yearsley's A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade'; Helen Maria Williams' A Farewell, For Two Years, To England; Felicia Dorothea Hemans' Records of Woman sequence; Letitia Elizabeth Landon's Felicia Hemans. For each of the authors, Duncan Wu has provided headnotes, footnotes and reading lists, all of which have been revised and updated for this third edition. As in previous editions, texts by political and philosophical writers, diarists, painters, broadside-balladeers, reviewers and letter-writers, are placed alongside major poetic works.