The Romantic Poets Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge

by Joseph Pearce, Robert Asch (Editor), William Wordsworth

The word “romantic” has so many varied meanings that C. S. Lewis quipped it should be deleted from our vocabulary. Yet, from the perspective of English literature, “romantic” is associated, first and foremost, with the poetry of Romanticism, the movement that accentuated the aesthetic value of emotion, human experience, and the majesty of nature. In this volume the finest works of the first generation of Romantic Poets—Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge—are assembled in an accessible and yet scholarly manner, together with a selection of contemporary criticism by tradition-oriented experts, in order to introduce these poets to a new generation of readers.

Genres: Poetry

635 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 15, 2015

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author with this name on GR

Joseph Pearce (born 1961) is an English-born writer, and as of 2004 Writer in Residence and Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Florida; previously he had a comparable position, from 2001, at Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He is known for a number of literary biographies, many of Catholic figures. Formerly aligned with the National Front, a white nationalist political party, he converted to Roman Catholicism in 1989, repudiated his earlier views, and now writes from a Catholic perspective. He is a co-editor of the St. Austin Review and editor-in-chief of Sapientia Press.

Reviews

[J · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good collection (ie they play all the hits) and the gloss and commentary is extremely useful. Glad I started here.

[Jonathen Loxley · Rating 5 out of 5]

Phenomenal 'greatest hits' collection of the best Romantics. Intro essay and all the supplemental essays in the back of this volume really add a lot of depth to the material and serve as good staging-grounds for interpretation. This is the third Ignatius Critical I've gone through (Macbeth and the Consolation of Philosophy being the others) and I highly recommend these versions and this publisher.