British Women Poets of the Romantic Era: An Anthology
While the canon has,   among the Romantics, paid attention almost exclusively to men (Shelley, Blake,  Wordsworth, etc.), there were a number of talented and important female poets whose  work was an integral part of the Romantic era. Felicia Hermans, Mary Robinson, and  Charlotte Smith, among others, were widely read, critically respected, and influential  among their fellow poets. This collection, then, is a crucial recovery of a body of work  that has heretofore been unavailable in one volume. It would be impossible to give an  appropriate amount of detail in this brief review, but an excerpt from Ann Radcliffe's  transcendent poem "The Sea-Nymph" will perhaps suggest the depth of the  worlds to be discovered inBritish Women Poets of the Romantic Era. "And  with my sister-nymphs I sport, / Till the broad sun looks o'er the floods; / Then, swift we  seek our crystal court, / Deep in the wave, 'mid Neptune's woods."--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.