Romanticism

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.

Auteur

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 KeatsShelley Memorial Association and The Charles Lamb Society.

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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.

Contenu
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 17701851 li

Richard Price (17231791) 3

From A Discourse on the Love of our Country (1789) [On Representation] 4

[Prospects for Reform] 5

Thomas Warton (17281790) 6

From Poems (1777)

Sonnet IX. To the River Lodon 7

Edmund Burke (1729/301797) 8

From A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) Obscurity 10

From Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) 11

[History will record] 11

[The age of chivalry is gone] 12

[On Englishness] 14

[Society is a Contract] 15

William Cowper (17311800) 17

From The Task (1785) [Crazy Kate] (Book I) 19

[On Slavery] (Book II) 20

[The Winter Evening] (Book IV) 21

From Works (18357) Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce, or The Slave-Trader in the Dumps 23

Thomas Paine (17371809) 24

From Common Sense (1776)

Of the Origin and Design of Government in General 26

From The Rights of Man Part I (1791)

[Freedom of Posterity] 26

[On Revolution] 27

From The Rights of Man Part II (1792)

[Republicanism] 28

Anna Seward (17421809) 29

Sonnet written from an Eastern Apartment in the Bishop's Palace at Lichfield 30

From Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems (1796) To Time Past. Written Dec. 1772 30

From Gentleman's Magazine (1786) Adv…