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 218
... head there shut from view - So that the jewel , safely casketed , Came forth , and in perfuméd leafits spread . 55 ... heads , and smile - Lift up your heads , sweet spirits , heavily , And make a pale light in your cypress - glooms ...
... head there shut from view - So that the jewel , safely casketed , Came forth , and in perfuméd leafits spread . 55 ... heads , and smile - Lift up your heads , sweet spirits , heavily , And make a pale light in your cypress - glooms ...
Page 450
... head And saw the bloody napkin by her side , Which in her arms she brought - and now , tenfold More terrified , saw it unfold itself ! Her eyes were fixed . The bloody cloth unfolds , Disclosing to her sight the murdered head Of her ...
... head And saw the bloody napkin by her side , Which in her arms she brought - and now , tenfold More terrified , saw it unfold itself ! Her eyes were fixed . The bloody cloth unfolds , Disclosing to her sight the murdered head Of her ...
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... head between the bars , And melts off half her nose ! Quite cross , a bit of string I beg , And tie it to his peg - top's peg , And bang , with might and main , Its head against the parlour - door : Off flies the head , and hits the ...
... head between the bars , And melts off half her nose ! Quite cross , a bit of string I beg , And tie it to his peg - top's peg , And bang , with might and main , Its head against the parlour - door : Off flies the head , and hits the ...
Contents
PREFACE | xxiii |
The Romantic Poets In Context | xxxv |
Romantic Hallmarks | 3 |
Copyright | |
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