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Informationen zum Autor W.H. Auden was born in 1907 and went to Oxford University, where he became Professor of Poetry from 1956 to 1960. After the publication of his Poems in 1930, he became the acknowledged leader of the 'thirties poets'. His poetic output was prolific, and he also wrote verse plays in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood, with whom he visited china. In 1946 he became a U.S. citizen. He died in 1973. Klappentext This volume, edited and with a superb introduction by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, presents the greatest of the Romantics in all the fullness and ardor of their vision, including William Blake, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Edgar Allan Poe. What emerges is a panoramic view of a generation of artists struggling to remake the world in their own image—and miraculously succeeding. Zusammenfassung This volume, edited and with a superb introduction by W.H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson, presents the greatest of the Romantics in all the fullness and ardor of their vision, including William Blake, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Edgar Allan Poe. What emerges is a panoramic view of a generation of artists struggling to remake the world in their own image—and miraculously succeeding. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Portable Romantic PoetsIntroduction General Principles A Calendar of British and American Poetry William Blake (1757-1827) Song: Memory hither come Mad Song Song: How sweet I roam'd from field to field To Spring From Songs of Innocence : Introduction: Piping down the valleys wild The Little Black Boy The Divine Image On Another's Sorrow From Songs of Experience : Introduction: Hear the voice of the Bard! The Tyger A Poison Tree The Sick Rose Ah! Sun-Flower London Infant Sorrow The Human Abstract Never seek to tell thy love Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau The Mental Traveller The Crystal Cabinet Auguries of Innocence For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise From Milton : And did those feet in ancient time The Book of Thel Robert Burns (1759-1796) The Jolly Beggars: A Cantata Address to the Deil Holy Willie's Prayer Tam Samson's Elegy Open the Door to Me, Oh! The Poet's Welcome to His Love-begotten Daughter A Red, Red Rose Ye flowery banks Simmer's a pleasant time O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad It was a' for our rightfu' king Ae fond kiss George Crabbe (1754-1832) From The Village : Village Life From The Borough : Peter Grimes From Sir Eustace Grey : Peace, peace, my friend Philip Freneau (1752-1832) From The House of Night : By some sad means The Wild Honeysuckle The Indian Burying Ground The Adventures of Simon Swaugum, a Village Merchant Fitz-Greene Halleck (1790-1867) On the Death of Joseph Rodman Drake The Field of the Grounded Arms Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) The Eve of Saint John From Marmion : Song: Where shall the lover rest The Battle From The Lady of the Lake : The western waves of ebbing day Boat Song Pibroch of Donuil Dhu Proud Maisie Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) Phantom The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream Dejection: An Ode This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison Frost at Midnight William Wordsworth (1770-1850) There was a Boy To H. C. It is a beauteous evening, calm and free The world is too much with us Composed upon Westminster Bridge London, 1802 Where lies the Land Ruth Resolution ...
