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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This work provides a selection of poetry and prose by the British Romantics - containing, in addition to work by the six major poets, a wide-ranging selection by writers in other genres. It features complete and uncut texts of: Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience"; Wordsworth's and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads"; Wordsworth's "The Thirteen-Book Prelude"; Keats' "The Odes" and "The Fall of Hyperion"; Shelley's "Prometheus Unbound"; and Byron's "Manfred", "Don Juan Dedication" and "Canto I". "Romanticism: an Anthology" reflects recent developments in Romantic scholarship, particularly in the expansion of the literary canon. Women writers represented include: Anna Seward; Hannah More; Charlotte Smith; Ann Yearsley; Mary Robinson; Mary Wollstonecraft; Joanna Baillie; Helen Maria Williams; Ann Radcliffe; Maria Edgeworth; Dorothy Wordsworth; Mary Russell Mitford; Mary Shelley; Felicia Hemans; and Laetita Landon. It includes extracts of works by political and philosophical writers: Thomas Paine; Edmund Burke; Richard Price; William Godwin; John Thelwall; William Frend; and James Mackintosh. It also represents diarists, painters, balladeers, reviewers and letter-writers. All texts derive from either the earliest available printed or manuscript source. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…