English Romantic Verse (Penguin Classics) Paperback – April 30, 1968

Hundreds of years of great English poetry

if you feel like poem for the moment, that is right book for you!!!good condition of it! just enjoy reading

Just the sticker gums it up, and notes, but good overall

Came with a book mark. I think.by mistake

I bought this for a class. It was in decent condition and the price was great. It had a good selection of poets and poetry available.

The poems in this book are really well done and presented. You get the full range of English Romantic poets from the very early transitional poets, Thomson, Gray and Collins, to the first true romantics, Blake.What sets this compilation apart is its use more than the standard poets. Yes, you get plenty of Blake, Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Byron, and Coleridge, but you also get some of the lesser known poets of the time, which in my mind makes this work more authoritative.My only gripe is that when perusing the Wordsworth, there is no "Solitary Reaper" and "I wandered lonely as a cloud." It also has no "Kubla Khan" I love all three of these poems, and I suppose that they are so ubiquitous that they do not need to be in every anthology, but I wish they were present.As a broad survey of the breadth of English Romantic verse, this book is quite well done. I use it as my textbook for Poetry in my British Literature class. I highly recommend it... but I still wish it had those three other poems.

Cover was creased, pages were yellow. And I hate Penguin Books with their cheap paper and hard-to-read typeface. The book was listed as "acceptable" and I don't know how I accidently managed to order this - I never order "acceptable" When I order a book, I intend to keep it, so I don't order books unless they look good, feel good, and are easy to read...! It might have been my error, of course. I'm writing this for one reason -- I HATE to throw away books, but in this case it was necessary.

This book contains some excellent poetry in it that is worth reading. The introduction to the book is a fascinating attempt to explain the Romantic Era as a reaction to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. The problem is that the book does not include very much information about the individual poets, or the poems themselves. There are only a few mentionings confined to the introduction, which is not enough. The Romantic Era is a period during which it is especially important to have information about the authors and poems, whose lives were often fascinating in their own.