The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries

by David Damrosch (Editor), Susan J. Wolfson (Editor), Peter J. Manning (Editor)

Volume 2 The Romantics and Their Contemporaries of The Longman Anthology of British Literature is a comprehensive and thoughtfully arranged anthology that offers a rich selection of major British authors throughout the Romantic period. The text includes Perspectives, Companion Readings, and "and Its Time" sections which show how major literary writings interrelate with and respond to various social, historical, and cultural events of Great Britain in the Romantic period. With a generous representation of fiction, drama, and poetry, the second edition includes major additions of important works and an expanded illustration program. Fresh and up-to-date introductions and notes are written by an editorial team whose members are all actively engaged in teaching and in current scholarship, and illustrations show both artistic and cultural developments of the period. For those interested in British Literature of the Romantic Period.

Genres: Poetry, School, Anthologies, Nonfiction, Classics, British Literature, Textbooks

1088 pages, Paperback

First published August 5, 1999

About the author

A past president of the American Comparative Literature Association, David Damrosch has written widely on comparative and world literature from antiquity to the present. His books include The Narrative Covenant: Transformations of Genre in the Growth of Biblical Literature (1987), We Scholars: Changing the Culture of the University (1995), What Is World Literature? (2003), The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh (2007), and How to Read World Literature (2008). He is the founding general editor of the six-volume Longman Anthology of World Literature (2004) and the editor of Teaching World Literature (2009) and co-editor of The Princeton Sourcebook in Comparative Literature (2009), The Routledge Companion to World Literature (2011), and Xin fangxiang: bijiao wenxue yu shijie wenxue duben [New Directions: A Reader of Comparative and World Literature], Peking U. P., 2010. He is presently completing a book entitled Comparing the Literatures: What Every Comparatist Needs to Know, and starting a book on the role of global scripts in the formation of national literatures.

Reviews

[Ana Mardoll · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Longman Anthology of British Literature, 2A / 0-321-10579-6

This anthology belongs to the three-volume set of The Longman Anthology of British Literature (Volumes 2A, 2B, 2C). Each volume contains gorgeous color plates of contemporary artwork and portraits. The authors are arranged not only by the dates they represent, but also by the causes that they provide perspective on. This arrangement makes the literary selections more meaningful when read as a group, and provides a great deal of insight on pertinent issues which influenced the authors' writings. This arrangement does mean, however, that many selections are scattered throughout the work, so if you wish to read all the selections by a specific author, then you will have to wade through the index to find the three or four places where their writings are located.

The authors represented in this volume are:
- Austen, Jane
- Baillie, Joanna
- Barbauld, Ann Letitia
- Bellamy, Thomas
- Blake, William
- Burke, Edmund
- Burns, Robert
- Clare, John
- Clarkson, Thomas
- Cobbett, William
- Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
- Cowper, William
- de Quincey, Thomas
- Equiano, Olaudah
- Gilpin, William
- Godwin, William
- Gordon, George (Lord Byron)
- Hazlitt, William
- Hemans, Felicia
- Kant, Immanuel
- Keats, John
- Lamb, Charles
- Lamb, Mary
- Macaulay, Catherine
- Moore, Thomas
- More, Hannah
- Newton, John
- Paine, Thomas
- Polwhele, Richard
- Prince, Mary
- Radcliffe, Mary Anne
- Robinson, Mary
- Ruskin, John
- Scott, Sir Walter
- Shelley, Percy Bysshe
- Smith, Charlotte
- Smith, Eaglesfied
- Southey, Robert
- Spence, Sir Patrick
- Thompson, William
- Wakefield, Priscilla Bell
- Wheeler, Anna
- Williams, Helen Maria
- Wollstonecraft, Mary
- Wordsworth, Dorothy
- Wordsworth, William
- Yearsley, Ann Cromartie
- Young, Arthur

~ Ana Mardoll

[kai · Rating 5 out of 5]

god i love this shit

[Kate · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a bad anthology but probably not the best. It kind of annoys me how they split up poems sometimes so parts of them are on other pages. Other than that, the endnotes are pretty good as are the descriptions of the authors. It has a good selection from the period and isn't hard to read like some are.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this anthology for British Romanticism.

While it was a wonderfully accumulated set of poems, prose excerpts, and biographies, I did not particularly enjoy the work that was written during the time of British Romanticism. Therefore, I enjoyed this anthology about as good as I possibly could, but it still was not for me; I would not have read this book if not for class.

[Karyn · Rating 1 out of 5]

Uuuuuuuugh. Painful.

[Suzanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bouncing back and forth between books in class. We'll get back to this one soon no doubt. This volume has some of my favorite poets: Shelley, Wordsworth, Keats. It's pleasurable reading.

[Albie]

The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries (2nd Edition) by David Damrosch (2002)

[Olivia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent collection of literature/poetry.

[Dani · Rating 4 out of 5]

One of my favorite anthologies I have studied with. It's a great book and has a lot of good pieces of literature.

[Megan · Rating 3 out of 5]

*3.5*

So many poems, so little time, although I did enjoy reading most of them.

[Aiyesha · Rating 3 out of 5]

if I never have to rent this again it will be too soon