A greatest-hits selection from some of the most popular poets in the English language, in a gorgeously-jacketed small hardcover.

William Wordsworth defined good poetry as the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, and no generation of poets has felt more powerfully than the Romantics of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. In this indispensable volume, Sir Jonathan Bateprizewinning biographer of Wordsworth, Keats and John Clarebrings together the most loved poems of the age, together with many forgotten gems. Alongside classics such as Coleridges Kubla Khan and Frost at Midnight, the immortal odes of Keats, and generous selections from WordsworthsLyrical BalladsandThe Prelude, the reader will rediscover the wit of Byron, the wildness of Blake, the passion of Shelley, a wealth of nature poems by Clare, and the distinctive voices of women Romantics such as Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Dorothy Wordsworth, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon.

Includes poems generations have learned to cherish, such as:
The Tyger by William Blake
She Walks in Beauty Like the Night by Lord Byron
Surprised by Joy by William Wordsworth
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Colerdige
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Everymans Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.

SEE LESS