This volume, edited and with a superb introduction by W.H. Auden and
Norman Holmes Pearson, presents the greatest of the Romantics in all the
fullness and ardor of their vision, including William Blake, Robert
Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Percy
Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau,
and Edgar Allan Poe. What emerges is a panoramic view of a generation of
artists struggling to remake the world in their own image--and
miraculously succeeding.