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In a revised, expanded, and updated second edition, a number of works have been added, and the editor has replaced Wordsworth's THIRTEEN-BOOK PRELUDE in favor of the much shorter TWO-PART PRELUDE, supplemented by well chosen extracts from the THIRTEEN-BOOK POEM. Other elements added to this new edition include expanded chronology, additional contents by author name, contents by theme, and more.
This original study is the first fully to acknowledge the impact of early grief on Wordsworth's poetry and to integrate it into a critical account of how his art developed from 1787 to 1813. Looks at the impact of grief on Wordsworth's great poetry. Explains the importance of the poet's great, unfinished epic 'The Recluse' to his work as a whole. Includes 20 illustrations from original notebooks. Contains the first annotated text of 'The White Doe of Rylstone'.
William and Dorothy Wordsworth is the first literary biography of the Wordsworths' creative collaboration. Using poems, letters, journals, memoirs, and biographies, it plots the intertwined lives of the Wordsworth siblings and their writing.
A groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery. A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance—while their authors awaited execution, endured imprisonment, fought on the battlefield, or labored on the brink of breakdown or death. All bear witness to historical events and the irresistibility of their impact. Alongside Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, this volume includes such writers as Anne Askew, tortured and executed for her religious beliefs during the reign of Henry VIII; Phillis Wheatley, abducted by slave traders; Samuel Bamford, present at the Peterloo Massacre in 1819; William Blake, who witnessed the Gordon Riots of 1780; and Samuel Menashe, survivor of the Battle of the Bulge. Poetry of Witness argues that such poets are a perennial feature of human history, and it presents the best of that tradition, proving that their work ranks alongside the greatest in the language.
ROMANTICISM Praise for the third edition: “An outstanding anthology, an excellent choice for advanced undergraduate courses on the Romantic era. This edition’s improvements include illustrations, a detailed chronology, and expanded selections from women poets. I look forward to using this edition of Romanticism for years to come.” Kim Wheatley, College of William and Mary “This anthology, even more magnificent and indispensable in its Third Edition, is not simply the most useful or the most learned anthology of English Romantic poetry and thought; it is the most exciting.” Leslie Brisman, Yale University Duncan Wu’s Romanticism: An Anthology has been appreciated by thousands of l...
A directory of authors and books read by Wordsworth before the age of thirty.
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The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.
The rediscovery and restitution of William Hazlitt as a canonical Romantic author has been among the latest and most significant developments in present-day Romantic studies. This volume, a collection of previously unpublished essays by the foremost scholars in the field presents Hazlitt as a philosophical, and not simply a 'familiar' essayist. It offers a comprehensive statement of the significance and transmission of Hazlitt's philosophical principles, in his own work and in that of his contemporaries and succeeding writers. This book is an essential contribution to a vital new aspect of Romantic studies and shows Hazlitt to be, as his memorial claims, 'The first (unanswered) Metaphysician of the age'.
Designed as a companion to Romanticism: An Anthology, Second Edition, this volume, dedicated exclusively to female poets of the Romantic period, contains complete and unabridged texts of: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven; Hannah More, Sensibility, The Bas-Bleu, and Slavery; Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (3rd Edition), The Emigrants, and Beachy Head; Ann Yearsley, Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade and Reflections on the Death of Louis XVI; Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, The Passage of the Mountain of St Gothard, A Poem; Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon; Helen Maria Williams, A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade and A Farewel...