The popularity of the book is so great that it has run into forty two impressions ever since it was originally published in the year 1951

    Copious edition of poetry, essays & letters.Selections from the pre-romantic movement: Lord Shaftesbury; James Thomson; Edward Young; Mark Akenside; Joseph Warton; Wm Collins; Th Warton; Th Gray; David Hartley; James MacPherson; Christopher Smart; Horace Walpole; Th Percy; Oliver Goldsmith; Th Chatterton; Wm Cowper; Robert Burns; Wm Beckford; Wm Lisle Bowles; Gilbert White; Erasmus Darwin; Wm Gilpin; Wm Bartram; Mary Wollstonecraft; Wm Godwin; Ann Radcliffe; Matthew Gregory LewisSelections from the romantic movement: Wm Blake; Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Wm Wordsworth; Charles Lamb; Wm Hazlitt; Sir Walter Scott; Robert Southey; Th Campbell; Walter Savage Landor; Th Moore; Lord Byron; John Keats; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Leigh Hunt; Th de Quincey; The Young Carlyle