Romanticism: An Anthology

Now, in response to feedback from the classroom, and extensive research into the needs of lecturers, Romanticism is back in a completely revised and expanded third edition.

NEW ADDITIONS FOR THE THIRD EDITION:

• Completely revised and updated headnotes and footnotes, incorporating the latest scholarly insights
  
• Up-to-date lists of critical reading for each author
  
• Now features 36 illustrations, including 16 colour illustrations
  
• A chronology
  
• An entirely new introduction
  
• An in-depth selection of works by major women Romantic poets, including complete texts of Hannah More, ‘Sensibility’ (1782) and Slavery (1788); Ann Yearsley, Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade (1788); Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (1786), The Emigrants (1793) and ‘Beachy Head’ (1807); Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812); Helen Maria Williams, A Farewell, for two years, to England (1791); Felicia Dorothea Hemans, ‘Records of Woman’ sequence (all 19 poems) (1828)
  
• Enhanced selections for Wordsworth, Hazlitt, Coleridge and Shelley (among others)

Romanticism: An Anthology remains theonly textbook of its kind to include complete and uncut texts of:

• Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798)
  
• Wordsworth, ‘The Ruined Cottage’, ‘The Pedlar’ and other Recluse fragments (1798)
  
• Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (1786)
  
• Felicia Dorothea Hemans, ‘Records of Woman’ sequence (all 19 poems) (1828)
  
• Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto III and Don Juan Dedication, Cantos I and II

All of the featured texts have been edited especially for students for this volume - from manuscript and early printed sources - by Duncan Wu.