The Revival of English Poetry in the Nineteenth Century: Selections From Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats and Byron (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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So far as the editor is aware, no good opportunity ex ists for carrying on this work in high schools. One of the poets is not represented in any of the ordinary collee tions of poems now in use as text-books, and no simple explanation of their position in the history of English poetry has been published. To offer such an explanation is the chief purpose of the Introduction in the present volume, which aims to give not only an elementary, but, at least for high schools, an adequate conception of the reawakening of the poetic spirit in this century.

In addition, it is hoped that the student will makematerial, which will throw light not only upon the five poets as individuals, but also and especially upon their mutual influence and common sources of inspiration. The selection of poems has been determined in part by the desire to rouse this personal interest, in the hope that the student will be stimulated to read more fully in the authors' works.

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