The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse

The poets whom we call the Romantics - Wordsworth, Coleridge, Burns and Blake, Byron, Shelley and Keates - belonged to an age that saw many other kinds of poetry written and published.

In this new anthology, Jerome McGann explores the full range of verse that was published in Britain between the years 1785 and 1832.

Selections from all the major and minor Romantic poets are included, but in addition there is political and satiric verse, the continuing tradition of "sentimental" verse, regional verse and verse in translation.

By organizing his material by date of first appearance, and not by author grouping, Professor McGann shows the poems in their historical contect, as poet responds and reacts to poet.

Old familiar poems are thrown into new relationships, and traditional views of the poetry of the period challenged.

An important feature of this anthology is the space it devotes to women poets.

Felicia Dorothy Hemans was one of the most widely published and read poets of the 19th century and here she takes her rightful place together with Anne Yearsley, Laetitia Barbauld, Mary Tighe, Lady Morgan, Laetitia Elizabeth Lando and other distinguished female writers.