The New Penguin Book of Romantic PoetryJonathan Wordsworth, Jessica Wordsworth Penguin, 2001 - 1005 pages Organized by theme and genre, this collection reveals unexpected connections and shared preoccupations, which should enable the reader to view the Romantics in a fresh light. Thus Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley appear as masters of comedy; Burns and Byron speak of the relationship between man and nature; and Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal. The acknowledged genius of Blake's Tyger, Coleridge's Kubla Khan and Shelley's Ozymandias is set alongside verse from less familiar figures, including a strong representation of women poets such as Charlotte Smith, Felicia Hemans and Letitia Elizabeth Landon. |
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Page 107
... eyes , for meek St Agnes ' sake , Or I shall drowse beside thee , so my soul doth ache . ' 32 Thus whispering , his warm , unnervéd arm Sank in her pillow . Shaded was her dream By the dusk curtains - ' twas a midnight charm Impossible ...
... eyes , for meek St Agnes ' sake , Or I shall drowse beside thee , so my soul doth ache . ' 32 Thus whispering , his warm , unnervéd arm Sank in her pillow . Shaded was her dream By the dusk curtains - ' twas a midnight charm Impossible ...
Page 153
... eyes are fixed In happy copulation ; if in evening mild , wearied with work , Sit on a bank and draw the pleasures ... eyes sicken at the fruit that hangs before his sight ? Such is self - love that envies all , a creeping skeleton With ...
... eyes are fixed In happy copulation ; if in evening mild , wearied with work , Sit on a bank and draw the pleasures ... eyes sicken at the fruit that hangs before his sight ? Such is self - love that envies all , a creeping skeleton With ...
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... eyes were wild : Keats in this beautiful line is probably aware of the opening of Wordsworth's The Mad Mother , ' Her eyes are wild . . . ' , and of the reference to Dorothy Wordsworth's eyes as ' wild ' at the end of Tintern Abbey . 18 ...
... eyes were wild : Keats in this beautiful line is probably aware of the opening of Wordsworth's The Mad Mother , ' Her eyes are wild . . . ' , and of the reference to Dorothy Wordsworth's eyes as ' wild ' at the end of Tintern Abbey . 18 ...
Contents
PREFACE | xxiii |
The Romantic Poets In Context | xxxv |
Romantic Hallmarks | 3 |
Copyright | |
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