Includes work by: Robert Burns; Hannah Cowley; Anne Yearsley; William Blake; Ann Radcliffe; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Matthew Lewis; Robert Southey; Walter Savage Landor; Charles Lamb; William Wordsworth; Anna Laetitia Barbauld; William Cowper; Thomas Campbell; Charlotte Dacre; Charlotte Smith; Walter Scott; George Crabbe; Lord Byron; Samuel Rogers; Thomas Moore; Leigh Hunt; John Keats; Percy Bysshe Shelley; James Hogg; Thomas Love Peacock; John Clare; Laetitia Elizabeth Brandon; Felicia Dorothy Hemans; Thomas Hood; Winthrop Praed; Alfred Tennyson

Exploring the full range of verse published in Britain between 1785 and 1832, one of the most fertile periods for English poetry, this new anthology includes selections from all the major and minor Romantic poets, as well as examples of the many other kinds of verse which continued to be written during the period: political and satirical verse, "sentimental" verse, regional and dialect verse, and verse in translation