Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles and moods, English poetry of the late 18th and early 19th centuries is generally classified under the term and “Romantic, and ” suggesting an emphasis on imagination and individual experiance, as well as a preoccupation with such themes as nature, death and the supernatural.This volume contains a rich selection of poems by England’s six greatest Romantic poets: William Blake (24 poems, including and “The Tyger and ” and and “Auguries of Innocence and “), William Wordsworth (27 poems, including and “Ode: Intimations of Immortality and ” and and “I wandered lonely as a cloud and “), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems, including and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and ” and and “Kubla Khan and “), Lord Byron (16 poems, including and “The Prisoner of Chillon and ” and selections from Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems, including and “Ode to the West Wind and ” and and “Adonais and “) and John Keats (22 poems, including all the great odes, and “Isabelle and ” and and “The Eve of St. Agnes and “). For this edition, Stanley Appelbaum has provided a concise Introduction to the Romantic period and brief commentaries on the poets represented. The result is a carefully selected anthology that will be welcomed by lovers of poetry, students and teachers alike.

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