ROMANTICISM
Praise for the third edition:
‘An outstanding anthology, an excellent choice for advanced undergraduate courses on the Romantic era. This edition’s improvements include illustrations, a detailed chronology, and expanded selections from women poets. I look forward to using this edition of Romanticism for years to come.’ Kim Wheatley, College of William and Mary
‘This anthology, even more magnificent and indispensable in its Third Edition, is not simply the most useful or the most learned anthology of English Romantic poetry and thought; it is the most exciting.’ Leslie Brisman, Yale University
Duncan Wu’s Romanticism: An Anthology has been appreciated by thousands of literature students and their teachers across the globe since its first appearance in 1994, and is the most widely used teaching text in the field in the UK. Now in its fourth edition, it stands as the essential work on Romanticism. It remains the only such book to contain complete poems and essays edited especially for this volume from manuscript and early printed sources by Wu, along with his explanatory annotations and author headnotes. This new edition carries all texts from the previous edition, adding Keats’s Isabella and Shelley’s Epipsychidion, as well as a new selection from the poems of Sir Walter Scott. All editorial materials, including annotations, author headnotes, and prefatory materials, are revised for this new edition.
Romanticism: An Anthology remains the only textbook of its kind to include complete and uncut texts of:
* Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798)
* Wordsworth, The Ruined Cottage, The Pedlar, The Two-Part Prelude, Michael, The Brothers and the Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800)
* Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (3rd edn, 1786), The Emigrants, Beachy Head
* Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Records of Woman sequence (all 19 poems)
* Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto III and Don Juan Dedication and Cantos I and II
* Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Urizen
* Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, Epipsychidion, The Mask of Anarchy and Adonais
* Keats, Odes, the two Hyperions, Lamia, Isabella and The Eve of St Agnes
* Hannah More, Sensibility and Slavery: A Poem
* Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven
* Ann Yearsley, A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade
* Helen Maria Williams, A Farewell, for two years, to England
As well as generous selections from the works of Mary Robinson, John Thelwall, Dorothy Wordsworth, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, John Clare, Letitia Landon and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Visit www.romanticismanthology.com for resources to accompany the anthology, including a dynamic timeline which illustrates key historical and literary events during the Romantic period and features links to useful materials and visual media.
Cuprins
List of Illustrations xxviii
List of Plates xxix
Abbreviations xxx
Introduction xxxii
Editor’s Note on the Fourth Edition xlv
Editorial Principles xlvi
Acknowledgements xlviii
A Romantic Timeline 1770-1851 li
Richard Price (1723-1791) 3
Thomas Warton (1728-1790) 6
Edmund Burke (1729/30-1797) 8
William Cowper (1731-1800) 17
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) 24
Anna Seward (1742-1809) 29
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
(née Aikin) (1743-1825)
34
Hannah More (1745-1833) 55
Charlotte Smith (née Turner)
(1749-1806) 81
George Crabbe (1754-1832) 146
William Godwin (1756-1836) 155
Ann Yearsley (née Cromartie)
(1756-1806) 160
William Blake (1757-1827) 174
Mary Robinson (née Darby) (1758-1800)
250
Robert Burns (1759-1796) 265
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) 281
Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) 291
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) 313
William Lisle Bowles (1762-1851) 321
John Thelwall (1764-1834) 322
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798) 333
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 420
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) 597
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) 603
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 611
Francis, Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850) 734
Robert Southey (1774-1843) 741
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) 756
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) 774
James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) 816
Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) 829
Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) 858
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824)
862
Richard Woodhouse, Jr (1788-1834) 1067
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 1070
John Clare (1793-1864) 1271
Felicia Dorothea Hemans (née Browne)
(1793-1835) 1290
John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) 1375
John Keats (1795-1821) 1384
Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849) 1503
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin)
(1797-1851) 1505
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) 1512
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) 1532
Index of First Lines 1538
Index to Headnotes and Notes 1543
Despre autor
Duncan Wu is Professor of English at Georgetown University, a former Professor of English Literature at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His publications include A Companion to Romanticism (Blackwell, 1997) and Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology (Blackwell, 1997). He is Vice-Chairman of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and The Charles Lamb Society.