![]() ![]() Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. ![]() The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 17 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. ![]() He is Chairman of the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, retired Professor. Print The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry Kindle Edition by Jonathan Wordsworth (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 138 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 16.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 2,305.25 1 Used from 289.00 1 New from 2,305. Jonathan Wordsworth is descended from William Wordsworths younger brother Christopher. ![]()
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