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The Portable Romantic Poets, Blake to Poe by Norman Holmes Pearson, W.H. Auden

shomarq's review

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5.0

Auden and Holmes Pearson's selection is magnificent and exemplary. In addition to the usual suspects (Byron, Keats, Shelley, the rest of the guys in the band, a la Sergeant Hathaway), there's a whole slew of poets who don't get much facetime in the reviews of Romantic poetry.

carosbcher's review

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2.0

Well, at first I have to say I'm not a HUGE fan of poetry. Still I liked to look through the book and pick a poem here and there. Some I liked more, some less. I found the introduction very helpful and interesting, it made it easier for me to get a connection to the verses.
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