English Romantic Poetry: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions) hits all the major Romantic poets, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats and Shelly.
If you are like me, and have not read these poets since high school or college, and when you read them you did so apathetically, then this is a book loaded with gems. Stylistically, thematically, and linguistically, these poems are at once familiar and numinous. They are protean forms in the mind and heart, forming shifting, evocative images and scenes.
The Dover Editions once sat on a rack near the register of book stores (do they still?) As if these little one or two dollar books were an impulse purchase like a pack of gum. The world has changed a great deal.
If you are like me, and have not read these poets since high school or college, and when you read them you did so apathetically, then this is a book loaded with gems. Stylistically, thematically, and linguistically, these poems are at once familiar and numinous. They are protean forms in the mind and heart, forming shifting, evocative images and scenes.
The Dover Editions once sat on a rack near the register of book stores (do they still?) As if these little one or two dollar books were an impulse purchase like a pack of gum. The world has changed a great deal.
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