English Romantic Poets

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780593535523 Author(s): Jonathan Bate Format: Hardcover Language: English Year: 2022 Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Pages: 288 Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series

Description: A greatest-hits selection from some of the most popular poets in the English language, in a gorgeously-jacketed small hardcover.William Wordsworth defined good poetry as A?the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,A? and no generation of poets has felt more powerfully than the Romantics of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.A‚  In this indispensable volume, Sir Jonathan BateA?prizewinning biographer of Wordsworth, Keats and John ClareA?brings together the most loved poems of the age, together with many forgotten gems. Alongside classics such as ColeridgeA?s A?Kubla KhanA? and A?Frost at MidnightA?, the immortal odes of Keats, and generous selections from WordsworthA?s Lyrical Ballads and The Prelude, the reader will rediscover the wit of Byron, the wildness of Blake, the passion of Shelley, a wealth of nature poems by Clare, and the distinctive voices of women Romantics such as Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon.A‚ Includes poems generations have learned to cherish, such as: A?Â?A‚ A?The Tyger' by William BlakeA?Â?A‚ A?She Walks in Beauty Like the Night' by Lord ByronA?Â?A‚ A?Surprised by Joy' by William WordsworthA?Â?A‚ A?Ode on a Grecian Urn' by John KeatsA?Â?A‚ A?Frost at MidnightA? by Samuel Taylor ColerdigeA?Â?A‚ 'Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe ShelleyA?Â?A‚ A?The Ancient Mariner' by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeA‚ Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

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