{"product_id":"the-penguin-book-of-romantic-poetry-isbn-9780140435689","title":"The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry","description":"The Romanticism that emerged after the American and French revolutions of 1776 and 1789 represented a new flowering of the imagination and the spirit, and a celebration of the soul of humanity with its capacity for love. This extraordinary collection sets the acknowledged genius of poems such as Blake's 'Tyger', Coleridge's 'Khubla Khan' and Shelley's 'Ozymandias' alongside verse from less familiar figures and women poets such as Charlotte Smith and Mary Robinson. We also see familiar poets in an unaccustomed light, as Blake, Wordsworth and Shelley demonstrate their comic skills, while Coleridge, Keats and Clare explore the Gothic and surreal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.\u003cb\u003eJonathan Wordsworth\u003c\/b\u003e is descended from William Wordsworth's younger brother Christopher. He is Chairman of the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, retired Professor of English Literature at Oxford, and has edited much of Wordsworth's poetry, including The Prelude: Four Texts (Penguin). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJessica Wordsworth\u003c\/b\u003e is Administator of the Wordsworth Winter School and Grasmere Summer Conference.\"The world is too much with us\"\u003cp\u003eThe world is too much with us; late and soon,\u003cbr\u003eGetting and spending, we lay waste our powers: \u003cbr\u003eLittle we see in Nature that is ours; \u003cbr\u003eWe have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! \u003cbr\u003eThis Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; \u003cbr\u003eThe winds that will be howling at all hours, \u003cbr\u003eAnd are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; \u003cbr\u003eFor this, for everything, we are out of tune, \u003cbr\u003eIt moves us not.--Great God! I'd rather be\u003cbr\u003eA Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; \u003cbr\u003eSo might I, standing on this pleasant lea, \u003cbr\u003eHave glimpses that would make me less forlorn; \u003cbr\u003eHave sight of Proteus rising from the sea; \u003cbr\u003eOr hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Solitary Reaper\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBehold her, single in the field,\u003cbr\u003eYon solitary Highland Lass!\u003cbr\u003eReaping and singing by herself;\u003cbr\u003eStop here, or gently pass!\u003cbr\u003eAlone she cuts and binds the grain,\u003cbr\u003eAnd sings a melancholy strain;\u003cbr\u003eO listen! for the Vale profound\u003cbr\u003eIs overflowing with the sound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo Nightingale did ever chaunt\u003cbr\u003eMore welcome notes to weary bands\u003cbr\u003eOf travellers in some shady haunt,\u003cbr\u003eAmong Arabian sands:\u003cbr\u003eA voice so thrilling ne'er was heard\u003cbr\u003eIn spring-time from the Cuckoo-bird,\u003cbr\u003eBreaking the silence of the seas\u003cbr\u003eAmong the farthest Hebrides.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill no one tell me what she sings?--\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps the plaintive numbers flow\u003cbr\u003eFor old, unhappy, far-off things,\u003cbr\u003eAnd battles long ago:\u003cbr\u003eOr is it some more humble lay,\u003cbr\u003eFamiliar matter of to-day?\u003cbr\u003eSome natural sorrow, loss, or pain,\u003cbr\u003eThat has been, and may be again?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhate'er the theme, the Maiden sang\u003cbr\u003eAs if her song could have no ending;\u003cbr\u003eI saw her singing at her work,\u003cbr\u003eAnd o'er the sickle bending;--\u003cbr\u003eI listened, motionless and still;\u003cbr\u003eAnd, as I mounted up the hill,\u003cbr\u003eThe music in my heart I bore,\u003cbr\u003eLong after it was heard no more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304834978021,"sku":"NP9780140435689","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140435689.jpg?v=1767740909","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-penguin-book-of-romantic-poetry-isbn-9780140435689","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}