Romanticism: 100 Poems

100 Romantic-era poems, both major and lesser-known, in English and translated from six languages, with an engaging introduction and notes.

Michael Ferber (Edited by)

9781108491051, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 4 March 2021

182 pages
20.5 x 13.6 x 1.6 cm, 0.29 kg

'Romanticism', though a debated term, is broadly understood as a cultural movement which gripped the European imagination in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Embodying a poetics of feeling intersecting with nature and the notion of the sublime, its experiential aesthetics were furthermore bound up with ideas of personal and political rebellion. Michael Ferber's lively anthology includes lesser-known verse from the best-known poets, as well as a few fine poems by little-known poets. Perfect for readers who would like to enjoy the many riches of arguably poetry's greatest era, or for those already familiar with the poets but who would welcome some happy surprises, this varied international selection includes verse translated from six languages, with several poems appearing in the original language alongside its translation. This engaging selection features concise, informative headnotes and a helpful introduction that charts a course to understanding the Romantic movement as a whole.

Introduction
1. Charlotte Smith
2. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
3. William Blake
4.Robert Burns
5. Friedrich Schiller
6. Helen Maria Williams
6. André Chénier
7. Friedrich Hölderlin
7. Sophie Mereau
8. William Wordsworth
9. Sir Walter Scott
10. Friedrich Schlegel
11. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
12. Robert Southey
13. Ugo Foscolo
14. Clemens Brentano
15. Thomas Moore
16. Karoline von Günderode
17. Leigh Hunt
18. Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
19. Joseph Freiherr on Eichendorff
20. Lord Byron
21. Susan Evance
22. Alphonse de Lamartine
23. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822
24. John Clare
25. Felicia Dorothea Hemans
26. William Cullen Bryant
27. John Keats
28. Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
29. Alfred de Vigny
30. Heinrich Heine
31. Giacomo Leopardi
32. Anton Delvig
33. Amable Tastu
34. Adam Mickiewicz
35. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin
36. Victor Hugo
37. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
38. Alexander Odoevsky
39. Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
41. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
42. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
43. Gérard de Nerval
44. Edgar Allen Poe
45. Alfred de Musset
46. Théophile Gautier
47. Mikhail Lermontov
48. Emily Brontë
49. Walt Whitman
50. Emily Dickinson
51. Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
52. William Butler Yeats.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: poetry & poets [DSC], Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 [DSBF], Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800 [DSBD], Literary theory [DSA], Poetry anthologies [various poets DCQ]