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Nearly all the famous pieces de resistance will be found here--'Intimations of Immortality', 'The Ancient Mariner,' 'The Tyger', excerpts from 'Don Juan'--as well as some less familiar poems. As far as possible the poets are arranged in chronological order, and their poems in order of composition, beginning with eighteenth-century precrusurs such as Gray, Cowper, Burns and Chatterton. Naturally most space has been given to the major Romantics--Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Clare and Keats--althought their successors, poets such as Beddoes and Poe, are included too, as well as early poems by Tennyson and Browning.
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