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The English Romantics

Major Poetry and Critical Theory

John L. Mahoney

This valuable anthology of works by major English Romantic poets offers readers a collection of representative Romantic literature as well as critical texts by major spokesmen of the movement in England. The editor places emphasis on the major achievements of the poets and critics of the age in order to give students a sense of the main directions of the Romantic movement. A major portion of the book is devoted to the works of the writers. Wherever feasible, complete texts of the poetry and criticism have been included. A general introductory essay sets the necessary background for the writers included. The volume ends with twenty-one contemporary critical essays on the Romantics and on the period in general.
 

$67.95 list, 828 pages

10-digit ISBN: 0-88133-957-1

13-digit ISBN: 978-0-88133-957-4

© 1978

Table of Contents

Part I. WILLIAM BLAKE

1. Poetical Sketches (excerpts)

2. Songs of Innocence (excerpts)

3. Songs of Experience (excerpts)

4. Prophecies (excerpts)

5. The Book of Thel

6. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (excerpts)

7. America: A Prophecy

8. The Book of Urizen

9. The Book of Ahania

10. The Four Zoas (excerpts)

Part II. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

1. Lyrical Ballads (excerpts)

2. The Prelude; or Growth of a Poet’s Mind (excerpts)

3. Excursion (excerpts)

Part III. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

1. Biographic Literaria (excerpts)

2. The Statesman’s Manual (excerpts)

3. Shakespearean Criticism (excerpts)

Part IV. GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON

1. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers

2. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (excerpts)

3. Manfred: A Dramatic Poem

4. Don Juan (excerpts)

5. The Vision of Judgment

Part V. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

1. Alastor; or the Spirit of Solitude

2. Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama

3. Epipsychidion

4. Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats

5. The Triumph of Life

6. A Defence of Poetry

Part VI. WILLIAM HAZLITT

1. Lectures on the English Poets (excerpt)

2. The Spirit of the Age (excerpt)

Part VII. JOHN KEATS

1. Hyperion (excerpts)

2. The Eve of St. Agnes

3. Lamia (excerpts)

4. The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream

5. Letters (excerpts)

Part VIII. SELECTED MODERN CRITICAL ESSAYS

1. The Romantic Reaction (Alfred North Whitehead)

2. Structure and Style in the Greater Romantic Lyric (M. H. Abrams)

3. William Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols (S. Foster Damon)

4. The Rising God (Northrop Frye)

5. Wordsworth: The Linking of Man and Nature (David Perkins)

6. Wordsworth: A Minority Report (Douglas Bush)

7. Wordsworth’s Decline (Willard Sperry)

8. The Evolution of Soul in Wordsworth’s Poetry (Robert Langbaum)

9. Coleridge: Transcendentalism and the Organic View of Nature (W. J. Bate)

10. Sin and Redemption in “The Ancient Mariner” (Robert Penn Warren)

11. Christabel and Kubla Khan (W. J. Bate)

12. Byron in the Twentieth Century (Leslie Marchand)

13. Childe Harold: The Byronic Hero (Peter Thorslev)

14. Byron as Satirist (Paul Trueblood)

15. An Introduction to Shelley (Carlos Baker)

16. Shelley (F. R. Leavis)

17. A Defence of Shelley’s Poetry (Kathleen Raine)

18. No Better Reality: New Dimensions in Hazlitt’s Aesthetics (John L. Mahoney)

19. Keats’s Sylvan Historian: History without Footnotes (Cleanth Brooks)

20. Ode to a Nightingale (Earl Wasserman)

21. To Autumn (Stuart Sperry)