The English Romantic Poets: An Anthology is a rare collection in that it includes representative poems of both the canonical and the non-canonical poets. Therefore, while there is poetry by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats and Shelley, there is also the work of Anna L?titia Barbauld, Sydney Owenson and Anna Seward. This anthology also features political poetry about the slave trade, the state of the colonial Empire, industrialisation and labour strifes, and contemporary political debates.