English Romantic Poets

Name: English Romantic Poets
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9781841598260
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Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS

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English Romantic Poets is a carefully curated anthology that celebrates the passion and power of the Romantic era’s poetry. Featuring favourites alongside lesser-known works, the collection highlights iconic poets such as Wordsworth, Keats, Coleridge and Byron, as well as nature-inspired verses by John Clare. Importantly, it elevates the voices of women Romantics like Charlotte Smith and Dorothy Wordsworth, offering a broad and inclusive portrait of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century poetry.
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This volume will appeal to students, scholars and enthusiasts of English literature, particularly those interested in Romantic poetry and the historical context surrounding its creation. It is a valuable resource for anyone seeking both celebrated masterpieces and overlooked gems from this transformative poetic period.

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Favourite poems from some of the most popular poets in the English language mingle with those that may be lesser known but are no less compelling. Women Romantic poets take their rightful place in the line-up.

'All good poetry is the spontaneous poetry of powerful feelings' - William Wordsworth

No generation of poets has felt more powerfully and enduringly than the Romantics of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this indispensable volume, Sir Jonathan Bate - prizewinning biographer of Wordsworth, Keats and John Clare - brings together the most loved poems of the age, together with many forgotten gems.

Alongside classics such as Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan' and 'Frost at Midnight', the odes of Keats and generous selections from Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads and The Prelude, the reader will discover the wit of Byron, the wildness of Blake, the passion of Shelley, a wealth of nature poems by Clare, and the distinctive voices of women Romantics such as Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Dorothy Wordsworth and Letitia Landon.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781841598260

Publisher: Everyman

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 06 October 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Everyman's Library

Contributors:

Edited by Sir Jonathan Bate
Edited by Sir Jonathan Bate

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 113.0mm

Height: 165.0mm

Weight: 254g

Pages: 288

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Penguin Books Poetry Series: Everyman's Library POCKET POETS

About the Author

Jonathan Bate (External Editor) Jonathan Bate is a well-known biographer, critic, broadcaster and scholar, and he is Provost of Worcester College and Professor of English Literature in the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Governor of the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcasts regularly for the BBC, and has held visiting posts at Yale and UCLA. In the Queen's 80th Birthday Honours, he was awarded a CBE for his services to Higher Education, and in 2015 he became the youngest person to have been Knighted for services to literary scholarship. His many publications include The Genius of Shakespeare, described by Sir Peter Hall as 'the best modern book on Shakespeare'; a biography of the poet John Clare that won the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tait Black Prize; and, most recently, a biography of Ted Hughes that was runner-up for the Samuel Johnson Prize and, in the USA, winner of the Biographers International Organization award for the best Arts and Literature biography of 2015. He is married to the writer Paula Byrne, and they have three children.