Romantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology

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Michael O'Neill, Charles Mahoney
Wiley, Sep 24, 2007 - Literary Criticism - 502 pages
Easily adaptable as both an anthology and an insightful guide to reading and understanding Romantic Poetry, this text discusses the important elements in the works from poets such as Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Barbauld, Byron, Shelley, Hemans, Keats and Landon.

  • Offers a thorough examination of the essential elements of Romantic Poetry
  • Highly selective, the text examines each of its poems in great detail
  • Discusses theme, genre, structure, rhyme, form, imagery, and poetic influence
  • Helpful head notes and annotations provide relevant contextual information and in-depth commentary

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Contents

Lord Byron Don Juan Canto
1
GOD RELIGION ATHEISM
3
William Blake The
8
Copyright

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Barbauld beauty beneath Blake Blake's breath bright Bromion Byron Cantos child Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Christabel cloud Coleridge Coleridge's Compare dark death delight Don Juan dream earth eternal eyes fear feeling Felicia Hemans flowers hath headnote hear heard heart heaven Hemans hope human imagination Innocence John Keats Keats Keats's Kubla Khan lady light live London look Lord Byron Lyrical Ballads mind moon mountains nature night Nightingale o'er Oothoon Oxford pain passion Percy Bysshe Shelley phrase Plate poem poem's poet poet's poetic poetry Prometheus rhyme Romantic Romantic poetry Romanticism round sense Shelley Shelley's silent sleep song sonnet soul Southey speaker spirit stanza suggests sweet tears Text thee Theotormon things thou thought Tintern Abbey tree turn Twas University Press Urizen vision voice wild William William Blake wind woman words Wordsworth youth

About the author (2007)

Michael O’Neill is Professor of English at Durham University. He is currently a Director of the University’s Institute of Advanced Study. He has published books, chapters, and articles on many aspects of Romantic and twentieth-century poetry, and received a Cholmondeley Award for Poets for his own poetry in 1990. His latest monograph is The All-Sustaining Air: Romantic Legacies and Renewals in British, American, and Irish Poetry since 1900 (2007).


Charles Mahoney is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where he is also currently the Associate Director of the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. He has published on a number of Romantic writers, including William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt, and is presently at work on a project entitled Revolutionary Measures: Romanticism, Formalism, Criticism.

Bibliographic information

TitleRomantic Poetry: An Annotated Anthology
Volume 6 of Blackwell Annotated Anthologies
EditorsMichael O'Neill, Charles Mahoney
Editionillustrated, annotated
PublisherWiley, 2007
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedMay 23, 2008
ISBN0631213163, 9780631213161
Length502 pages
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Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
  
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