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( 0 of 3 found this review helpful ) Posted: Feb 22 2007
I really like this book as an English major it is very helpful becuase I can use many of the works for my other English classes as well. It is very heavy so lugging it back and forth from class was my only negative thing to say. but other wise i enjoyied this book. Also when highlighting in it the pages look thin but can withstand medium marker pressure.
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( 3 of 4 found this review helpful ) Posted: Dec 16 2006
About the only praiseworthy thing about Wu's _Anthology_ is that it contains the complete text of Wordsworth & Coleridge's _Lyrical Ballads_, and in several instances shows parallel texts of different versions of several of Coleridge's poems. Wu also gives ample space to many of the female writers of the period, most notably Anna Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Mary Wollstonecraft, etc. Prose works of the period are inadequately represented in favor of poetry. But the most irritating thing about the book is its design. It is a huge tome, probably weighing in at 8 or 9 pounds, and is very cumbersome to handle. The graphical and typographical design is atrocious--very unpleasing to the eye, poorly laid out, and a nuisance to consult. The reader would be much better off with the _Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol D: Romantic Period_. David Perkins' _English Romantic Writers_ remains the definitive anthology, but it is very expensive, and I have been told by an esteemed professor that the current edition has so many errors in it that he feels he cannot use it in his graduate level courses as he would have liked.
