Description from Goodreads
Feelings come alive through the words of the Romantic poets.
Romanticism gained traction in the late 1700s as writers moved away from the intellectualism of the Enlightenment and toward more emotional and natural themes. The major works of the movement’s six most famous poets—William Wordsworth, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, and William Blake—are represented in this handsome Word Cloud Classics volume, The Romantic Poets. One of the largest and most influential artistic movements in history, Romanticism valued intuition and pastoralism, and its themes are well represented in the verse of its stars.
My Thoughts on the Book
The Romantic Poets is one of those anthologies that if you're into poems from the British Romanticism, you'll probably treasure this anthology. Some of the poems are on the longer side, there might be a few to skip over while reading through this anthology for those with a dislike (or struggle) reading poems that goes on for a while.
I was familiar with the poets in this anthology already, as I studied them while at university (I even studied some of the actual poems), but it was nice to revisit them. While I do prefer shorter poems, I also overall enjoy poems from the British Romanticism, so for me, this was an enjoyable read.
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