English Romantic Verse (Penguin Classics)

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Book Overview

English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence Nearly all the famous pi ces de r sistance will be found here--"Intimations of Immortality," "The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140421025
• ISBN13: 9780140421026
• Release Date: April 1968
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.1" x 0.7" x 4.4"

Customer Reviews

The greatness of English Romantic poetry

English poetry is one of the great bodies of Poetry in the world. English Romantic Poetry is one of the great summits of English Poetry. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats- these four in and by themselves constitute an incredible concentration of poetry at its best. There are of course many collections of 'English Romantic Poetry' and this Penguin one includes most of the great works. Ordinarily English Romantic poetry is dated from 1798 with the publication of the 'Lyrical Ballads of Wordsworth and Coleridge'. And though Wordsworth went on to write into the Victorian Period the great poetry is pretty finished in the early 1820's with the deaths of Shelley and Keats. English Romantic Poetry gave a new freedom and richness of expression to the Language. Most often it is contrasted with the Poetry of Dryden- Pope which has come before. The Classic Poetry is the ' bucket or container' and the Romantic Poetry the spontaneous overflowing well.