English Romantic poetry from its beginnings & its flowering to the first signs of its decadence Nearly all the famous pieces de resistance will be found here
- ' Intimations of Immortality' ' The Ancient Mariner' ' The Tyger' excerpts from ' Don Juan'
- as well as some less familiar poems As far as possible the poets are arranged in chronological order & their poems in order of composition beginning with eighteenth-century precursors such as Gray Cowper Burns & Chatterton Naturally most space has been given over to the major Romantics
- Blake Wordsworth Coleridge Byron Shelley Clare & Keats
- although their successors poets such as Beddoes & Poe are included too as well as early poems by Tennyson & Browning In an excellent introduction David Wright discusses the Romantics as a historical phenomenon & points out their central ideals & themes