Romantic women poets, 1770-1838 Book

Leafing through the poems when the mood takes me.

Update: I really enjoyed this book as a sideliner to the novel I'm reading as I could dip in and out of it.

There are some poems in it that I really enjoyed and others I wasn't so keen on but it does give a variety of poets; this was my first real look at Shelley, Wordsworth and Byron. I would have expected Ode by Arthur O'Shaughnessy to be in this book but I suppose the poem was romantic but he wasn't really considered that way. I'd really like to own a copy of this book someday, and I wrote a list of the poems I liked somewhere so I'll edit when I find it. Poems I can remember appreciating were 'I am' by John Clare - so mournful and yet hopeful too, and I just like the first line, "I am; yet what I am none cares or knows." That and The Painted Veil were good ones. Other poems made such use of personification, like The Mask of Anarchy and I did like that.

The book ends with The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. It may be long but ah, it's epic. I just feel happier owning this book, whether I read through it regularly or not!