Product Description

Since it was first published in 1995, Duncan Wu’s Romanticism: An Anthology has been used and appreciated by thousands of literature students and their teachers across the globe.

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18882 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 1552 pages

Review
“In the third edition of his groundbreaking Romanticism: An Anthology, Duncan Wu has made a very good text even better. For those interested in stirring the familiar ingredients (Blake to Byron) back into the rich soup of the times in which they dwelt, this anthology offers the best opportunity. Wu gives us the texts of familiar poems made strange––sometimes by being presented in their first printed version, sometimes by the juxtaposition implied by Wu′s canny practice of the anthologizer′s art.” David Latane, Virginia Commonwealth University

“The Wu 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. The flames of that excitement are fed by generous cords of minor poets and major essayists, carefully selected, intelligently bundled. But even the old–growth timber of the major poets burns with a brighter flame by being most provocatively introduced, brilliantly edited (especially Blake), and stacked against the kindling of the lesser lyricists. The combination of earlier and revised versions of the same poem is dazzlingly illuminating. One might say of Wu′s Romanticism: An Anthology, in comparison to any other collection, what Wu himself says in introducing the early use of the term “Romanticism: "Romanticism was ′organic′ and ′plastic,′ as against the ′mechanical′ tendencies of Classicism." Perhaps the anthology itself cannot keep growing in subsequent editions without becoming unwieldy; but the enthusiasm it generates can grow without bounds and will prove both "organic"––well rooted in accurate, historically placed texts––and "plastic," ever subject to imaginative reshaping.” Leslie Brisman, Yale University

"The third edition of Duncan Wu′s Romanticism is 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. Early and late versions of crucial poems such as Coleridge′s "This Lime–Tree Bower my Prison" are now placed together for easier comparison. I look forward to using this edition of Romanticism for years to come." Kim Wheatley, College of William and Mary

“No one familiar with Duncan Wu′s impressive body of Romantic period scholarship and criticism will be surprised at the high quality of Romanticism: An Anthology. I have chosen it for my "British Romantic Poetry" as this text is superior to any other available in its combination of essential canonical poetry with an astute selection of other literature, including extensive representation of women writers.” Paul Betz, Georgetown University

From the Author
All those buying from Amazon should note that the reader reviews on this website all relate to the 2nd edition of Romanticism, which is now out of print. The third edition is completely rewritten and revised on the basis of feedback from those who used the first and second editions.

From the Back Cover
Since it was first published in 1995, Duncan Wu’s Romanticism: An Anthology has been used and appreciated by thousands of literature students and their teachers across the globe.

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
  
• Timeline
  
• 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)
  
• 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.

Customer Reviews

All the Romanticism you need
This is a book aimed, I would imagine, mostly at university students. And if you're studying the Romantics at uni then this is mostly all you'll need. It's got a good variety of poets, some excellent notes (on the pages, not at the back of the book, thankfully) and it even has some very nice paintings of the poets included.
My only criticism is - and this mostly relates to the William Blake section - it would have been great to see the plates that originally accompanied the poems. Especially in the Marriage of Heaven and Hell, these pictures are quite integral and pop up every so often (it does tell you where they originally went but it doesn't show the plates). I'm sure printing would've costed more but I think it would have been worth it. It's very difficult to find these pictures so having them in the anthology would have been nice.
Anyway overall as an essential for Romanticism students and enthusiasts alike, this is a very good anthology.