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Author Wordsworth, J. W. (Jonathan W.)

Title Visionary gleam : forty books from the Romantic period / Jonathan Wordsworth
Published London ; New York : Woodstock Books, 1993

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Description xii, 243 pages ; 23 cm
Series Revolution and romanticism, 1789-1834
Revolution and romanticism, 1789-1834.
Contents William Gilpin: Observations of the river Wye 1782 -- Robert Burns: Poems chiefly in the Scottish dialect 1786 -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The sorrows of Werter 1789 (1779) -- Charlotte Smith: Elegaic sonnets 1789 (1784) -- William Lisle Bowles: Fourteen sonnets 1789 -- Erasmus Darwin: The loves of the plants 1789 -- Richard Price: A discourse on the love of our country 1789 -- Thomas Paine: The rights of man 1791 -- Thomas Holcroft: The road to ruin 1792 -- William Frend: Peace and union 1793 -- William Godwin: An enquiry concerning political justice 1793 -- Coleridge and Southey: The fall of Robespierre 1794 -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Conciones ad populum 1795 -- Charles Lamb: Rosamund Gray 1798 -- Canning and Frere: Poetry of the anti-Jacobin 1799 -- Robert Southey: Thalaba the destroyer 1801 -- Walter Scott: The lay of the last minstrel 1805 -- Richard Mant: The simpliciad 1808 -- Thomas Campbell: Gertrude of Wyoming 1809 -- Mary Tighe: Psyche 1811(1805) -- William Wordsworth: The excursion 1814 -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Christobel 1816 -- Charles robert Maturin: Bertram 1816 -- Robert Owen: A new view of society 1817 (1813) -- Hazlitt and Hunt: The round table 1817 -- Thomas Love Peacock: Nightmare abbey 1818 -- John Keats: Endymion 1818 -- John Hookham Frere: Whistlecraft 1818 -- Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Cenci 1819 -- William Wordsworth: Peter Bell 1819 -- Lord Byron: Don Juan 1819 -- Percy Bysshe Shelley: Adonais 1821 -- William Wordsworth: A description of the lakes 1822 -- Charles Lamb: Elia 1823 -- William Hazlitt: Liber amoris 1823 -- Percy Bysshe Shelley: Posthumous poems 1824 -- John Clare: The shepherd's calendar 1827 -- Felicia Hemans: Records of woman 1828 -- Alfred Tennyson: Poems, chiefly lyrical 1830 -- Thomas De Quincey: Klosterheim 1832
Summary The age of English Romanticism began with the French Revolution and ended with the Reform Bill of 1832. The key works of the period share an assumption that change in the political system is possible. Wordsworth comments on forty such books
Analysis Europe
Literature Romanticism
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Also issued online
Subject English literature -- 18th century -- Bibliography.
English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism.
English literature -- 19th century -- Bibliography.
English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Romanticism -- Great Britain -- Bibliography.
Romanticism -- Great Britain.
LC no. 94134480
ISBN 1854771264