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The Companion to Romanticism is a major introductory survey from an international galaxy of scholars writing new pieces, specifically for a student readership, under the editorship of Duncan Wu.

Product Description: Edited now for the first time by Duncan Wu, it provides students and general readers alike with an approachable introduction to Wordsworth's greatest work. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Making Plays explores great drama of the last two decades through the eyes of those who write it and those who direct it. It is at once a masterclass on theatrical technique and a unique insight into the ways in which great dramatists of our time have reacted to a rapidly changing world. Duncan Wu talks to Michael Attenborough, Alan Bennett, Michael Blakemore, Howard Brenton, David Edgar, Sir Richard Eyre, Michael Frayn, Sir David Hare, Nicholas Hytner, and Max Stafford-Clark. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this selection from the two-volume Plain Speaker, Tom Paulin and Duncan Wu have given priority to essays that address some of the most important critical issues both in romantic studies today and the poetics of prose. Provides the only edition of The Plain Speaker available outside libraries since 1928...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Looks at the development of poetry during the Renaissance and provides selections from such authors as Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Ben Jonson, and John Milton.

The six great Romantic poets represented in this concise collection – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats – are those considered essential reading for anyone with an interest in the verse of the period. An essential selection of poetry by the six great Romantic poets. Ideal for general readers or for students taking short courses in Romanticism. Includes the whole of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Gives readers a concise overview of Romantic poetry.

Designed as a companion to Romanticism: An Anthology, Second Edition, this volume, dedicated exclusively to female poets of the Romantic period, contains complete and unabridged texts of: Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven; Hannah More, Sensibility, The Bas-Bleu, and Slavery; Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (3rd Edition), The Emigrants, and Beachy Head; Ann Yearsley, Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade and Reflections on the Death of Louis XVI; Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, The Passage of the Mountain of St Gothard, A Poem; Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon; Helen Maria Williams, A Poem on the Bill Lately Passed for Regulating the Slave Trade and A Farewell, for Two Years, To England; Ann Batten Cristall, Poetical Sketches; Mary Tighe, Psyche; and Felicia Dorothea Hemans, Stanzas to the Memory of the Late King, and Records of Woman. The selection includes manuscript versions of poems by Susanna Blamire and Lady Caroline Lamb. Other poets represented are: Anna Seward, Mary Scott, Phillis Wheatley, Anne Grant, Joanna Baillie, Ann Radcliffe, Amelia Opie, Charlotte Byrne (aka Charlotte Dacre), Isabella Lickbarrow, Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), and Letitia Elizabeth Landon (LEL). (view table of contents)

Product Description: Romanticism: A Critical Reader is designed both as a companion and a supplement to Blackwell's Romanticism: An Anthology. It deals for the most part with works included in that volume while affording coverage to key elements, including fiction, beyond the anthologist's scope to include...read more

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William Wordsworth (1770-1850) is one of the most important and enduringly popular of all the English poets. His unique relationship with the poet and political activist Samuel Taylor Coleridge, founded in the political and social ferment of 1795, produced a revolution in literature, resulting in the joint volume, Lyrical Ballads (1798-1805)--a landmark in the history of English Romanticism. This selection, chosen from the Oxford Authors critical edition, includes all Wordsworth's finest lyrics, and a large sample of The Prelude (1805), his extraordinary autobiographical poem in blank verse and the first truly great achievement of a new era in English poetry.

Product Description: William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

William Hazlitt is viewed by many as one of the most distinguished of the non-fiction prose writers to emerge from the Romantic period. This nine-volume edition collects all his major works in complete form. (view table of contents)

Explores the central concerns of six contemporary British dramatists: Alan Bennett, Dennis Potter, Simon Gray, Howard Brenton, David Hare, and Alan Ayckbourn. The essays demonstrate how the dramatists' work is essentially moral and relates their aspirations to the British romantic tradition of the last century while exploring how each writer has responded to changes in personal and public ethics during the 1980s. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.