Romanticism

Since it was first published in 1995, Duncan Wu's "Romanticism: An Anthology" has been used and appreciated by thousands of literature students and their teachers across the globe. Now, in response to feedback from the classroom, and extensive research into the needs of lecturers, "Romanticism" is back in a completely revised and expanded third edition.New additions for the third edition: completely revised and updated headnotes and footnotes, incorporating the latest scholarly insights Up-to-date lists of critical reading for each author; now features 36 illustrations, including 16 colour illustrations; a chronology; an entirely new introduction; an in-depth selection of works by major women Romantic poets, including complete texts of Hannah More, "Sensibility" (1782) and "Slavery" (1788); Ann Yearsley, "Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade" (1788); Charlotte Smith, "Elegiac Sonnets" (1786), "The Emigrants" (1793) and "Beachy Head" (1807); Anna Laetitia Barbauld, "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven" (1812); Helen Maria Williams, "A Farewell, for two years, to England" (1791); and, Felicia Dorothea Hemans, "Records of Woman" sequence (all 19 poems) (1828); and, enhanced selections for Wordsworth, Hazlitt, Coleridge and Shelley (among others). "Romanticism: An Anthology" remains thinly textbook of its kind to include complete and uncut texts of: Wordsworth and Coleridge, "Lyrical Ballads" (1798); Wordsworth, "The Ruined Cottage", "The Pedlar" and other Recluse fragments (1798); Charlotte Smith, "Elegiac Sonnets" (1786); Felicia Dorothea Hemans, "Records of Woman" sequence (all 19 poems) (1828); and, Byron, Childe Harold's "Pilgrimage Canto III" and "Don Juan Dedication, Cantos I and II". All of the featured texts have been edited especially for students for this volume - from manuscript and early printed sources - by Duncan Wu.

ISBN 1405120851   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9781405120852 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 2002 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Published in Chicester Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)   Series title Blackwell Anthologies Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780631222699 Publication date 22 Aug 2005   Height (mm) 244 Library of Congress PR1139.R66   Width (mm) 173 DEWEY 828.708145   Spine width (mm) 62 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Pages 1552

Alphabetical List of Authors. Abbreviations. Introduction. Editorial Principles. Acknowledgements. Romantic Chronology 1770-1851. Richard Price (1723-91). From A Discourse on the Love of our Country (1789). [On Representation]. [Prospects for Reform]. Thomas Warton (1728-90). From Poems (1777). Sonnet IX. To the River Lodon. Edmund Burke (1729-97). From A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). Obscurity. From Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790). [History will record ...]. [The age of chivalry is gone]. [On Englishness]. [Society is a Contract]. William Cowper (1731-1800). From The Task (1785). [Crazy Kate] (Book I). [On Slavery] (Book II). [The Winter Evening] (Book IV). From Works (1835-7). Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce, or The Slave-Trader in the Dumps. Thomas Paine (1737-1809). From Common Sense (1776). Of the Origin and Design of Government in General. From The Rights of Man Part I (1791). [Freedom of Posterity]. [On Revolution]. From The Rights of Man Part II (1792). [Republicanism]. Anna Seward (1742-1809). Sonnet written from an Eastern Apartment in the Bishop's Palace at Lichfield. From Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems (1796). To Time Past. Written Dec. 1772. From Gentleman's Magazine (1786). Advice to Mrs Smith. A Sonnet. From Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems (1796). Eyam. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (nee Aikin) (1743-1825). From Poems (1773). A Summer Evening's Meditation. From Poems (1792). Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade. From Works (1825). The Rights of Woman. From The Monthly Magazine (1799). To Mr Coleridge. Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem (1812). Hannah More (1745-1833). From Sacred Dramas: chiefly intended for young persons: the subjects taken from the Bible. To which is added, Sensibility, A Poem (1782). Sensibility: A Poetical Epistle to the Hon. Mrs Boscawen. Slavery: A Poem (1788). Cheap Repository. The Story of Sinful Sally. Told by Herself (1796). Charlotte Smith (nee Turner) (1749-1806). Elegiac Sonnets: the third edition. With twenty additional sonnets. (1786). To William Hayley, Esq. Preface to the First Editions. Preface to the Third Edition. Sonnet I. Sonnet II. Written at the Close of Spring. Sonnet III. To a Nightingale. Sonnet IV. To the Moon. Sonnet V. To the South Downs. Sonnet VI. To Hope. Sonnet VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale. Sonnet VIII. To Spring. Sonnet IX. Sonnet X. To Mrs G. Sonnet XI. To Sleep. Sonnet XII. Written on the Seashore. October 1784. Sonnet XIII. From Petrarch. Sonnet XIV. From Petrarch. Sonnet XV. From Petrarch. Sonnet XVI. From Petrarch. Sonnet XVII. From the Thirteenth Cantata of Metastasio. Sonnet XVIII. To the Earl of Egremont. Sonnet XIX. To Mr Hayley. On Receiving some Elegant Lines from Him. Sonnet XX. To the Countess of Abergavenny. Written on the Anniversary of her. Marriage. Sonnet XXI. Supposed to be Written by Werther. Sonnet XXII. By the Same. To Solitude. Sonnet XXIII. By the Same. To the North Star. Sonnet XXIV. By the Same. Sonnet XXV. By the Same. Just before his Death. Sonnet XXVI. To the River Arun. Sonnet XXVII. Sonnet XXVIII. To Friendship. Sonnet XXIX. To Miss C---------. On being Desired to Attempt Writing a Comedy. Sonnet XXX. To the River Arun. Sonnet XXXI. Written on Farm Wood, South Downs, in May 1784. Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun, October 1785. Sonnet XXXIII. To the Naiad of the Arun. Sonnet XXXIV. To a Friend. Sonnet XXXV. To Fortitude. Sonnet XXXVI. The Emigrants: A Poem in Two Books (1793). Dedication: To William Cowper, Esq. Book I. Book II. From Beachy Head: with Other Poems (1807). Beachy Head. George Crabbe (1754-1832). From The Borough (1810) Letter XXII: The Poor of the Borough. Peter Grimes. William Godwin (1756-1836). From Political Justice (2 vols., 1793). [On Property]. [Love of Justice]. [On Marriage]. Ann Yearsley (nee Cromartie) (1756-1806). From Poems on various sub

"In the third edition of his groundbreaking Romanticism: An Anthology, Duncan Wu has made a very good text even better. For those interested in stirring the familiar ingredients (Blake to Byron) back into the rich soup of the times in which they dwelt, this anthology offers the best opportunity. Wu gives us the texts of familiar poems made strange--sometimes by being presented in their first printed version, sometimes by the juxtaposition implied by Wu's canny practice of the anthologizer's art." David Latane, Virginia Commonwealth University "The Wu 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. The flames of that excitement are fed by generous cords of minor poets and major essayists, carefully selected, intelligently bundled. But even the old-growth timber of the major poets burns with a brighter flame by being most provocatively introduced, brilliantly edited (especially Blake), and stacked against the kindling of the lesser lyricists. The combination of earlier and revised versions of the same poem is dazzlingly illuminating. One might say of Wu's Romanticism: An Anthology, in comparison to any other collection, what Wu himself says in introducing the early use of the term "Romanticism: "Romanticism was 'organic' and 'plastic,' as against the 'mechanical' tendencies of Classicism." Perhaps the anthology itself cannot keep growing in subsequent editions without becoming unwieldy; but the enthusiasm it generates can grow without bounds and will prove both "organic"--well rooted in accurate, historically placed texts--and "plastic," ever subject to imaginative reshaping." Leslie Brisman, Yale University "The third edition of Duncan Wu's Romanticism is 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. Early and late versions of crucial poems such as Coleridge's "This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison" are now placed together for easier comparison. I look forward to using this edition of Romanticism for years to come." Kim Wheatley, College of William and Mary "No one familiar with Duncan Wu's impressive body of Romantic period scholarship and criticism will be surprised at the high quality of Romanticism: An Anthology. I have chosen it for my "British Romantic Poetry" as this text is superior to any other available in its combination of essential canonical poetry with an astute selection of other literature, including extensive representation of women writers." Paul Betz, Georgetown University

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