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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 821.7080145 EAN: 9780486292823 ISBN: 0486292827 Label: Dover Publications Manufacturer: Dover Publications Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: November 08, 1996 Publisher: Dover Publications Studio: Dover Publications Editorial Review: Product Description: Rich selection of 123 poems by six great English Romantic poets: William Blake (24 poems), William Wordsworth (27 poems), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (10 poems), Lord Byron (16 poems), Percy Bysshe Shelley (24 poems) and John Keats (22 poems). Introduction and brief commentaries on the poets. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Good for the priceI was teaching the "English Romantics" to a small class of students. I needed something cheap. This did the job although it has no footnotes or annotations to the text. Introduction to each poet is helpful but limited in scope. Bill Kurry Rating:  - The poetry itself I think most readers know what they are going to get with a 'Dover edition or reprint'. An attractive, spartan looking volume( It has changed in recent years and their volumes are more colorful) without extensive commentary or note. The works themselves. In this case it is a collection of the poetry of the great Romantics, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron. There are of course many anthologies of this poet, most with more elaborate notes and explication. But I love many ... Read More Rating: - A Great Poetry Collection for the PriceDover Thrift Edition books are known for providing classical literature for a great price, without abridging the material (unless they say so of course). This anthology is no exception. The best poets of the English Romantic period are included, including two of my favorites, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. Blake, Byron, Shelley, and Keats are also represented quite liberally. Don't expect too much of this anthology outside of the actual poems themselves though. It is a Thrift ... Read More Rating:  - A pretty good anthologyThe price is certainly right. I used this book to teach a high-school poetry class. The selection of Blake is the weakest part of it: the selections from Innocence and Experience aren't ample enough to give a real sense for the book, and exclude some lyrics that I just couldn't do without (e.g. the "Holy Thursday" of Experience). The complete lack of notes (which originally I thought of as a plus :->) led to some unnecessary pain for students -- I remember one attempted close-reading of "The Extinction ... Read More Rating: - GREATIt has some of the best poems i have ever read in them! there is a need to buy this book if u are hopelessly devoted to love poems! |
