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Romanticism : an anthology

Title: Romanticism : an anthology / edited by Duncan Wu.
Publication: Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, USA : Blackwell, 1994.

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Wu, Duncan

Description

xxxviii, 1142 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

A comprehensive selection of poetry and prose by the British Romantics, including works by the six major poets and a wide-ranging selection by writers in other genres.

Series Statement

Blackwell anthologies

Uniform Title

Blackwell anthologies

Subject

Genre/Form

Poetry
poetry.
Literary collections
Literature
Poetry.
Literature.
Poésie.
Littérature.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [1115]-1119) and index.

Contents

On Representation ; Prospects for Reform / Richard Price (1723-91) -- Sonnet IX. To the River Lodon / Thomas Warton (1728-90) -- On Obscurity ; On Englishness ; Society is a Contract / Edmund Burke (1729-97) -- Crazy Kate (Book I) ; On Slavery (Book II) ; Winter Evening (Book IV) ; Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce, or The Slave-Trader in the Dumps / William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Of the Origin and Design of Government in General ; Freedom of Posterity ; On Revolution ; Republicanism / Thomas Paine (1737-1809) -- Sonnet VII / Anna Seward (1742-1809) -- Instructions, Supposed to be Written in Paris, for the Mob in England / Mary Alcock (c.1742-98) -- Summer Evening's Meditation ; Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade ; Rights of Woman ;To Mr Coleridge / Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) -- Sensibility : A Poetical Epistle to the Hon. Mrs. Boscawen ; Sorrows of Yamba, or the Negro Woman's Lamentation (c.1795) (published by Hannah More as a Cheap Repository broadside, but not written by her) / Hannah More (1745-1833) -- Sonnet V. To the South Downs ; Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun, October 1785 / Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) -- Peter Grimes / George Crabbe (1754-1832) -- Injustice of the Law ; 'In Deep Distress, I Cried to God' / George Dyer (1755-1841) -- On Property ; Love of Justice ; On Marriage / William Godwin (1756-1836) -- from A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade (1788) / Ann Yearsley (1756-1806) -- All Religions Are One ; There Is No Natural Religion (a) ; There Is No Natural Religion (b) ; Book of Thel (1789) ; Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789-94) ; Shepherd ; Echoing Green ; Lamb ; Little Black Boy ; Blossom ; Chimney Sweeper ; Little Boy Lost ; Little Boy Found ; Laughing Song ; Cradle Song ; Divine Image ; Holy Thursday ; Night ; Spring ; Nurse's Song ; Infant Joy ; Dream ; On Another's Sorrow ; Earth's Answer ; Clod and the Pebble ; Holy Thursday ; Little Girl Lost ; Little Girl Found ; Chimney Sweeper ; Nurse's Song ; Sick Rose ; Fly ; Angel ; Tiger ; My Pretty Rose-Tree ; Ah, Sunflower! ; Lily ; Garden of Love ; Little Vagabond ; London ; Human Abstract ; Infant Sorrow ; Poison Tree ; Little Boy Lost ; Little Girl Lost ; To Tirzah ; Schoolboy ; Voice of the Ancient Bard ; Divine Image ; Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) ; Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) ; Book of Urizen (1794) ; from A Letter in Revd. Dr. Trusler, 23 August 1799 ; Mental Traveller ; Crystal Cabinet ; Enion's Lamentation (from 'Night the Second', pp.35-6) ; Revival of the Eternal Man (from 'Night the Ninth', pp.133-5) ; 'And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time' / William Blake (1757-1827).
Haunted Beach ; My First Encounter with the Prince of Wales ; Mrs Robinson to the Poet Coleridge / Mary Robinson (1758-1800) -- Epistle to J. Lapraik, an Old Scotch Bard, 1 April 1785 ; To a Mouse, on Turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785 ; Man was Made to Mourn, A Dirge ; Tam o'Shanter. A Tale ; Song ('Oh my love's like the red, red rose') / Robert Burns (1759-96) -- On Poverty ; On the Lack of Learning ; Revolution in Female Manners ; On State Education ; On Capital Punishment ; Norwegian Morals / Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97) -- Sonnet to Twilight ; Visit to the Bastille ; On Revolution ; Retrospect from England ; Madame Roland / Helen Maria Williams (1762-1827) -- Sonnet VIII. To the River Itchin, near Winton / William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850) -- On Passion (from 'Introductory Discourse') / Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) -- Old Peasant ; Stanzas on Hearing for Certainty that we were to be Tried for High Treason ; Dangerous Tendency of the Attempt to Suppress Political Discussion ; Civic Oration on the Anniversary of the Acquittal of the Lecturer [5 December] being a Vindication of the Principles, and a Review of the Conduct that Placed him at the Bar of the Old Bailey. Delivered Wednesday 9 December 1795 ; from A Letter from John Thelwall to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 10 May 1796 ; Lines Written at Bridgwater in Somersetshire, on 27 July 1797, during a Long Excursion in Quest of a Peaceful Retreat ; To the Infant Hampden. Written during a Sleepless Night. Derby, October 1797 / John Thelwall (1764-1834) -- from Letter from Mary Anne Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth, 7 May 1805 ; Two Boys ; What is Love? / Mary Anne Lamb (1764-1847) -- Rondeau ; Road to Emont ; Jaws of Borrowdale ; Grasmere / Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) -- Popular Excesses which Attended the Revolution / James Mackintosh (1765-1832) -- Spring ; Summer / Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823).
Letter IV: Caroline to Lady V., Upon her Intended Separation from her Husband ; Letter from Maria Edgeworth to Mrs Stark, 6 September 1834 / Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849) -- Stanzas Written under Aeolus' Harp / Amelia Opie (1769-1853) -- Advertisement (by Wordsworth) ; Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts (by Coleridge) ; Foster-Mother's Tale : A Dramatic Fragment (by Coleridge) ; Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree which Stands near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a Desolate Part of the Shore, yet Commanding a Beautiful Prospect (by Wordsworth) ; Nightingale; A Conversational Poem, Written in April 1798 (by Coleridge) ; Female Vagrant (by Wordsworth) ; Goody Blake and Harry Gill : A True Story (by Wordsworth) ; Lines Written at a Small Distance from my House, and Sent by my Little Boy to the Person to whom they are Addressed (by Wordsworth) ; Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman, with an Incident in which he was Concerned (by Wordsworth) ; Anecdote for Fathers, Showing how the Art of Lying may be Taught (by Wordsworth) ; We are Seven (by Wordsworth) ; Lines Written in Early Spring (by Wordsworth) ; Thorn (by Wordsworth) ; Last of the Flock (by Wordsworth) ; Dungeon (by Coleridge) ; Mad Mother (by Wordsworth) ; Idiot Boy (by Wordsworth) ; Lines Written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening (by Wordsworth) ; Expostulation and Reply (by Wordsworth) ; Tables Turned : An Evening Scene, on the Same Subject (by Wordsworth) ; Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch (by Wordsworth) ; Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman (by Wordsworth) ; Convict (by Wordsworth) ; Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, 13 July 1798 (by Wordsworth) ; Strange Fits of Passion I Have Known ; Song ('She dwelt among th' untrodden ways') ; Slumber did my Spirit Seal ; Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower ; Prospectus to 'The Recluse' ; Note to 'The Thorn' ; I Travelled among Unknown Men ; Rainbow ; 'These Chairs they have no Words to Utter' ; Resolution and Independence ; World is Too Much with Us ; Dear Native Brooks, Your Ways I have Pursued ; To Toussaint L'Ouverture ; 1 September 1802 ; Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802 ; London 1802 ; Ode / William Wordsworth (1770-1850).

ISBN

063119195X
9780631191957
0631191968
9780631191964

LCCN

94007570

OCLC

ocm29911080
29911080
SCSB-2077549

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library