The New Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry (Penguin Classics)
£9.30
I don t think I m too keen on the Romantics - I don t think I m too keen on the Romantics, and perhaps I should not write about this book - but I think the choice is catholic and representative and I would commend the book for this. So the editors have done their job well, its just the material they have had to work with is such poor versification and drivel. I am not totally unaware of the virtues of this school - and I do like some of them. For instance I enjoy Keats greatly, to a slightly lesser extent Blake, and to a half way point most of the works in this book. However, they seem to have spilled a lot of ink for very little reward. Its more an ideological problem I have with them. Its not their politics, which were sweet, its more their self-confidence that anyone would actually like to share their subjective Weltanschauung!