Synopses & Reviews
When preparing English Romantic Writers, one of the principal considerations was the relevance of the English Romantic writers to our own generation. This book offers a very generous selection from authors who have traditionally held a large place in our consciousness of English Romanticism, but it also includes other figures, especially women, who have been less emphasized in the past. The intellectual discourses of the age concerning governance, politics, and the impact of the French Revolution, gender and the status of women, the nature of nature and of human psychology, and the theory of literature and art are represented in the prose and poetry of writers like Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Shelleys, and Keats. There is also an usually large selection of ancillary materials -- letters, journals, reviews, and reminiscences of the writers.
Synopsis
ENGLISH ROMANTIC WRITERS offers selections from authors who have traditionally held a large place in our consciousness of English Romanticism, but it also includes other figures--especially women--who have been less emphasized in the past. The intellectual discourses of the age concerning governance, politics, the impact of the French Revolution, gender and the status of women, the nature of nature and of human psychology, and the theory of literature and art are represented in the prose and poetry of writers like Wordsworth, Coleridge, the Shelleys, and Keats.
Table of Contents
1. Anna Laetitia Barbauld. 2. Charlotte Smith. 3. George Crabbe. 4. William Godwin. 5. William Blake. 6. Mary Robinson. 7. Robert Ruins. 8. Mary Wollstonecraft. 9. Joanna Baillie. 10. Helen Maria Williams. 11. William Wordsworth. 12. Sir Walter Scott. 13. Dorothy Wordsworth. 14. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 15. Mary Tighe. 16. Robert Southey. 17. Walter Savage Landor. 18. Charles Lamb. 19. William Hazlitt. 20. Thomas Moore. 21. Leigh Hunt. 22. Tomas DeQuincey. 23. Thomas Love Peacock. 24. Benjamin Robert Haydon. 25. George Gordon, Lord Byron. 26. Percy Bysshe Shelley. 27. John Clare. 28. Felicia Dorothea Hemans. 29. John Keats. 30. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. 31. Laetitiea Elizabeth Landon. 32. Thomas Lovell Beddoes.