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hollyndb's review
challenging
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
3.5
allard802's review
4.0
A wonderful anthology of most major Romantic poets. Highly recommended to have access to the well-known poems of Romanticism. I'm planning to go back through and read the poems I missed at a later date as I read sections of the anthology for a college class.
big_goose's review against another edition
2.0
I think the percentage of poems I liked was somewhere around maybe 10% - which isn't awful for any anthology this big - but the stuff I didn't like I really didn't like.
I feel like a square for articulating this, but I just don't think that there's very much actually happening in a lot of this "experimental" poetry. I sort of distrust that word in general - do these experiments provide results? what are they? showing your work is fine, but I guess I also want to know what conclusions these experiments have provided. I guess language is arbitrary and you can make it do weird stuff - duh - but I like poems a lot better when I can actually read them.
I sort of wished two paragraph intros provided more context, because the editors clearly see value in this work, and I wish I could too. Instead, they read like blurbs - telling me how great what I'm gonna read is, instead of providing some sort of critical context that maybe would help me know what's going on.
The stuff I did like in here, though, I liked a lot. The collection is a really good survey of a certain kind of poetry, and if the intros were a little more in depth and provided more commentary on the specific poems in the anthology, it would have been really helpful.
I feel like a square for articulating this, but I just don't think that there's very much actually happening in a lot of this "experimental" poetry. I sort of distrust that word in general - do these experiments provide results? what are they? showing your work is fine, but I guess I also want to know what conclusions these experiments have provided. I guess language is arbitrary and you can make it do weird stuff - duh - but I like poems a lot better when I can actually read them.
I sort of wished two paragraph intros provided more context, because the editors clearly see value in this work, and I wish I could too. Instead, they read like blurbs - telling me how great what I'm gonna read is, instead of providing some sort of critical context that maybe would help me know what's going on.
The stuff I did like in here, though, I liked a lot. The collection is a really good survey of a certain kind of poetry, and if the intros were a little more in depth and provided more commentary on the specific poems in the anthology, it would have been really helpful.
nickie184's review against another edition
5.0
I'll never get to read all these poems, but I'll enjoy wandering through all the beauty of a fine example of why I love Norton Anthologies.
sullyisreading's review against another edition
I originally bought this anthology for a university course, however I switched off that course and now have it to read in my own time. I already have plenty to read, but I do plan to return to it someday, I think it is a genuine trove of fascinating stories. I primarily read Heart of Darkness, so my content warnings reflect that.
Content Warnings
Minor: Cursing, Racism, and Colonisation
booksandbraids's review against another edition
I had to read bits and pieces of this for an online class I took this summer... So I didn't have high hopes. It didn't go above my expectations, but I didn't want to die while reading it so I guess that is a plus.
I can say this is one of the best textbooks I've ever had to get- I borrowed it from my school library and renewed it three times over the course so I did not have to buy it. Major plus. I did not want to buy a 100 set of books I was never going to touch again.
I can say this is one of the best textbooks I've ever had to get- I borrowed it from my school library and renewed it three times over the course so I did not have to buy it. Major plus. I did not want to buy a 100 set of books I was never going to touch again.
booksandbraids's review against another edition
3.0
I had to read bits and pieces of this for an online class I took this summer... So I didn't have high hopes. It didn't go above my expectations, but I didn't want to die while reading it so I guess that is a plus.
This volume was actually better than the first- there were a lot of pieces in here that I actually kind of liked. Most of them were at least okay.
I can say this is one of the best textbooks I've ever had to get- I borrowed it from my school library and renewed it three times over the course so I did not have to buy it. Major plus. I did not want to buy a 100 set of books I was never going to touch again.
This volume was actually better than the first- there were a lot of pieces in here that I actually kind of liked. Most of them were at least okay.
I can say this is one of the best textbooks I've ever had to get- I borrowed it from my school library and renewed it three times over the course so I did not have to buy it. Major plus. I did not want to buy a 100 set of books I was never going to touch again.
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