Transatlantic Romanticism: An Anthology of British, American, and Canadian Literature, 1767-1867This eagerly-anticipated anthology offers canonical and non-canonical texts from American, British, and Canadian Romantic writers. This long-overdue anthology of Romantic literature meets the growing demand for a coherent and flexible transatlantic Romantic reader. It offers a range of representative materials by the most central, as well as non-canonical, North American and British figures. Thematic groupings and companion readings, strategically integrated throughout the book, work together to provide lively and illuminating views of the major literary, cultural, and political debates of the transatlantic Romantic century. Accessible and engaging introductions and headnotes lead to an even greater appreciation and understanding of the prose and poetry of the transatlantic Romantic era. This is a two volume shrinkwrapped package. |
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... produced ? And it was sixteen centuries after this before a Newton could be formed . I do not mean to deny , that there are varieties in the race of man , distinguished by their powers both of body and mind . I believe there are , as I ...
... produced is artlessly , yet poetically expressed - and who can avoid sympathizing ? Love to man leads to devotion - grand and sublime images strike the imagination - God is seen in every floating cloud , and comes from the misty ...
... produces , or feels to be produced , in himself . However exalted a notion we would wish to cher5. Thomas Gray ( 1716-1771 ) , " Sonnet on the Death of Richard West " ( 1775 ) . 6. John Milton ( 1608-1674 ) , Paradise Lost ( 1667 ) ...
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Introduction | 1 |
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 17061790 | 25 |
SAMSON OCCOM 17231792 | 40 |
Copyright | |
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