Updated and revised edition of the essential work on Romanticism Duncan Wu's Romanticism: An Anthology has been an invaluable resource for thousands of literature students and their teachers across the globe since its first appearance in 1994 and is the most widely used teaching text in the field in the UK. This Fifth Edition has been revised to focus on six canonical authors-Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron and Shelley-to provide a more concise and accessible volume. The Fourth Edition of the anthology, with complete and uncut texts from other notable authors like Yearsley and More, is available online to readers of the Fifth Edition. In this book, readers will find: A fresh perspective from Wu on various editorial decisions made in prior editions, with the intention to present each draft as it stood on completionHeadnotes for each author, as well as glosses for archaisms, difficult constructions, allusions, echoes, and other verbal borrowings to provide essential points of
