The Poets of the Nineteenth Century

by Various Poets; Selected and Edited by Rev. Robert Aris Willmott; Arranged by Evert A. Duyckinck

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New York: Harper Brothers, Publishers, 1862. Hardcover. Very Good. Illustrated . A handsome mid-19th-century anthology of English and American poetry from the Romantic and early Victorian eras. It represents the Victorian-era appreciation for poetry as moral and aesthetic inspiration. Duyckinck s arrangement and Willmott s selections reflect contemporary taste, highlighting poets who were highly regarded at the time.This Harper Brothers edition was a popular gift book and home library volume in the 1860s. br br ABOUT THIS COPY: Bound in a dark seafoam green textured cloth, it is profusely decorated in gilt ornamentation. All edges gilt. Butter yellow endpapers. Illustrated throughout with 132 engravings in black and white, drawn by eminent artists (title page). xvi, 616 pp. br br POETS INCLUDED ARE: James Beattie, William Cowper, William Hayley, James Hurdis, Charlotte Smith, Anna Seward, Erasmus Darwin, William Crowe, Thomas Percy, George Crabbe, Mary Tighe, Ann Radcliffe, Anna Letita Barbauld, Hanna More, W. Lisle Bowles, Samuel Rogers, Amelia Opie, William Spencer, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keates, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White, Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana, Samuel Woodworth, Walter Scott, Thomas Campbell, Richard Henry Wilde, James Montgomery, Joanna Baillie, James Grahame, Robert Bloomfield, Ebenezer Elliott, Thomas Moore, Charles Wolfe, Allan Cunningham, Sidney Walker, James Hogg, Charles Sprague, Fel

• Publisher: Harper & Brothers, Publishers
• Year: 1862
• Binding: hardcover

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