The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse - Hardcover

McGann, Jerome J.

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9780192141583: The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse

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ISBN 10: 0192141589 ISBN 13: 9780192141583

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1993

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The poets whom we call the Romantics - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns and Blake, Byron, Shelley and Keates - belonged to an age that saw many other kinds of poetry written and published. In this new anthology, Jerome McGann explores the full range of verse that was published in Britain between the years 1785 and 1832. Selections from all the major and minor Romantic poets are included, but in addition there is political and satiric verse, the continuing tradition of "sentimental" verse, regional verse and verse in translation. By organizing his material by date of first appearance, and not by author grouping, Professor McGann shows the poems in their historical contect, as poet responds and reacts to poet. Old familiar poems are thrown into new relationships, and traditional views of the poetry of the period challenged. An important feature of this anthology is the space it devotes to women poets. Felicia Dorothy Hemans was one of the most widely published and read poets of the 19th century and here she takes her rightful place together with Anne Yearsley, Laetitia Barbauld, Mary Tighe, Lady Morgan, Laetitia Elizabeth Lando and other distinguished female writers.

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Review from previous edition "Maybe Jerome McGann's new volume of Romantic Period verse will attract chief attention through the notice it gives to the women, and justly so. Here is the spirit of that splendid revolutionary age, recalled in its minute details and all its glory."--Times Educational Supplement"there are great things here and some intriguing oddities"--The Observer Review from previous edition "Maybe Jerome McGann's new volume of Romantic Period verse will attract chief attention through the notice it gives to the women, and justly so. Here is the spirit of that splendid revolutionary age, recalled in its minute details and all its glory."--Times Educational Supplement "there are great things here and some intriguing oddities"--The Observer Review from previous edition "Maybe Jerome McGann's new volume of Romantic Period verse will attract chief attention through the notice it gives to the women, and justly so. Here is the spirit of that splendid revolutionary age, recalled in its minute details and all its glory."--Times Educational Supplement "there are great things here and some intriguing oddities"--The Observer Review from previous edition "Maybe Jerome McGann's new volume of Romantic Period verse will attract chief attention through the notice it gives to the women, and justly so. Here is the spirit of that splendid revolutionary age, recalled in its minute details and all its glory."--Times EducationalSupplement"there are great things here and some intriguing oddities"--The Observer

About the Author:

About the Editor: Jerome J. McGann is Commonwealth Professor at the University of Virginia. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the Romantic period, including Towards a Literature of Knowledge and the Oxford Authors Byron.

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