Title: Romanticism : an anthology /
Authors: Wu, Duncan
Publisher: Blackwell,
Year: 1994
Subjects: English literature; English literature; Romanticism Great Britain
Abstract: A comprehensive selection of poetry and prose by the British Romantics, including works by the six major poets and a wide-ranging selection by writers in other genres.
Contents: Richard Price (1723-91) -- On Representation -- Prospects for Reform -- Thomas Warton (1728-90) -- Sonnet IX. To the River Lodon -- Edmund Burke (1729-97) -- On Obscurity -- On Englishness -- Society is a Contract -- William Cowper (1731-1800) -- Crazy Kate (Book I) -- On Slavery (Book II) -- The Winter Evening (Book IV) -- Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce, or The Slave-Trader in the Dumps -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) -- Of the Origin and Design of Government in General -- Freedom of Posterity -- On Revolution -- Republicanism -- Anna Seward (1742-1809) -- Sonnet VII -- Mary Alcock (c.1742-98) -- Instructions, Supposed to be Written in Paris, for the Mob in England -- Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) -- A Summer Evening's Meditation -- Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade -- The Rights of Woman -- To Mr Coleridge -- Hannah More (1745-1833) -- Sensibility: A Poetical Epistle to the Hon. Mrs. Boscawen --^