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Anthologies: Primary
The anthologies of primary works listed in this section cover a broad range of British Romantic literature, although they rarely include entire novels, epics, or other long narratives. They feature both established and less well-known writers, focusing on specific groups or movements—women writers, laboring class poets, writing on slavery, periodical verse, and the like. A good text for beginners is the Norton Anthology, but the anthologies edited by Mellor and Matlack and by Wu are more inclusive. On women writers, Feldman's anthology is the more thorough and up-to-date. And for the burgeoning area of writings on slavery, the most thorough anthology is edited by Kitson and Lee (8 volumes), although the anthologies by Gates and Andrews, Basker, and Wood are more accessible and include writings from Anglo-Americans outside the Romantic era; Wood's introductions to each selection are excellent.
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Abrams, M.H., Gen. Ed. |
The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Romantic Period (2000) |
Basker, James G., ed. |
Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery, 1660- 1810 (2002) |
| Brooks, Chris, and Faulkner, Peter, eds. | The White Man's Burdens: An Anthology of British Poetry of the Empire (1996) |
Breen, Jennifer, ed. |
Women Romantic Poets 1785-1832 (1992) |
Carretta, Vincent, ed. |
Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century (1998) |
| Cox, Jeffrey and Michael Gamer, eds. | The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama (2003) |
Feldman, Paula R., ed. |
British Women Poets of the Romantic Era (2001) |
| Gates, Henry Louis and William L. Andrews eds. | Pioneers of the Black Atlantic: Five Slave Narratives from the Enlightenment 1772-1815 (1998) |
Goodridge, John, Gen. Ed. |
Eighteenth Century English Labouring Class Poets . Vol 3.1780-1800 (2002) |
| Kelly, Gary , et al., eds. | Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle , 1738-1790 . 6 vols. (1999) |
Lee, Debora and Peter Kitson, Gen. Eds. |
Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation: Writings in the British Romantic Period (1999) |
McGann, Jerome J., ed. |
The New Oxford Book of Romantic Period Verse (1994) |
Mellor, Anne K. and Richard Matlack, eds. |
British Literature 1780-1830 (1996) |
Perkins, David, ed. |
English Romantic Writers, 2nd edition (1994) |
Reiman, Donald H. |
The Romantics Reviewed: Contemporary Reviews of British Romantic Writers (1972) |
Scrivener, Michael, ed. |
Poetry and Reform: Periodical Verse from the English Democratic Press, 1792-1824 (1992) |
Wood, Marcus |
The Poetry of Slavery: An Anglo-American Anthology 1764-1865 (2003) |
Wu, Duncan, ed. |
Romanticism: An Anthology (1994). |