The Age of Romanticism

For the third edition of this volume a number of changes have been made. Author entries for James Macpherson and Thomas Moore have been added to the bound book, as have additional poems by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, Robert Burns, Joanna Baillie, Mary Robinson, Felicia Hemans, Lord Byron, John Clare, and several others. Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience is now included in its entirety, as is Coleridge’s “On the Slave Trade.” Also new to the anthology are Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent, selections from Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, and Lord Byron’s The Giaour. The third edition also features a new Contexts section on the Gothic, including selections by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis, and many others.

There are several additions to the website component as well—including a Contexts section on disability and a Contexts section on religion in the Romantic period. Other notable additions to the website include Sir Walter Scott’s “Two Drovers,” Byron’s Manfred, and new author entries for Hannah More, Robert Southey, Jane Cave, Emma Lyon, Leigh Hunt, and Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan.

Our Editorial Team:

Joseph Black, University of Massachusetts
Leonard Conolly, Trent University
Kate Flint, University of Southern California
Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta
Roy Liuzza, University of Tennessee
Jerome McGann, University of Virginia
Anne Prescott, Barnard College
Barry Qualls, Rutgers University
Claire Waters, University of California Davis