Romanticism:

An Anthology

Edited By Duncan Wu

Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1994.

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Introduction

Editorial Principles

Acknowledgements

Inventory of Manuscripts

Abbreviations

Richard Price (1723-91)

from A Discourse on the Love of our Country (1789): On Representation; Prospects for Reform

Thomas Warton (1728-90)

from Poems (1777): Sonnet IX. To the River Lodon

Edmund Burke (1729-97)

from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757): On Obscurity

from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790): On Englishness; Society is a Contract

William Cowper (1731-1800)

from The Task (1785): Crazy Kate (Book I); On Slavery (Book II); The Winter Evening (Book IV)

from Works, ed. Robert Southey (15 vols., 1835-7): Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce, or The Slave-Trader in the Dumps

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

from Common Sense (1776): Of the Origin and Design of Government in General

from The Rights of Man, Part I (1791): Freedom of Posterity; On Revolution

from The Rights of Man, Part II (1792): Republicanism

Anna Seward (1742-1809)

from Sonnets (1799): Sonnet VII

Mary Alcock (c. 1742-98)

from Poems (1799): Instructions, Supposed to be Written in Paris, for the Mob in England

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)

from Poems (1773): A Summer Evening's Meditation

from Poems (1792): Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade

from Works (1825): The Rights of Woman

from Monthly Magazine, 7 (1799) 231-2: To Mr Coleridge

Hannah More (1745-1833)

from Sacred Dramas (1782): Sensibility: A Poetical Epistle to the Hon. Mrs. Boscawen (extract)

The Sorrows of Yamba, or the Negro Woman's Lamentation (c. 1795) (published by Hannah More as a Cheap Repository broadside, but not written by her)

Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)

from Elegiac Sonnets (1784): Sonnet V. To the South Downs

from Elegiac Sonnets (1786): Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun, October 1785

George Crabbe (1754-1832)

from The Borough (1810): Peter Grimes

George Dyer (1755-1841)

from The Complaints of the Poor People of England (1793): The Injustice of the Law

'In Deep Distress, I Cried to God'

William Godwin (1756-1836)

from Political Justice (1793): On Property; Love of Justice; On Marriage

Ann Yearsley (1756-1806)

from A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade (1788)

William Blake (1757-1827)

All Religions Are One

There Is No Natural Religion (a)

There Is No Natural Religion (b)

The Book of Thel (1789)

Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789-94)
Songs of Innocence (1789): Introduction; The Shepherd; The Echoing Green; The Lamb; The Little Black Boy; The Blossom; The Chimney Sweeper; The Little Boy Lost; The Little Boy Found; Laughing Song; A Cradle Song; The Divine Image; Holy Thursday; Night; Spring; Nurse's Song; Infant Joy; A Dream; On Another's Sorrow
Songs of Experience (1794): Introduction; Earth's Answer; The Clod and the Pebble; Holy Thursday; The Little Girl Lost; The Little Girl Found; The Chimney Sweeper; Nurse's Song; The Sick Rose; The Fly; The Angel; The Tiger; My Pretty Rose-Tree; Ah, Sunflower!; The Lily; The Garden of Love; The Little Vagabond; London; The Human Abstract; Infant Sorrow; A Poison Tree; A Little Boy Lost; A Little Girl Lost; To Tirzah; The Schoolboy; The Voice of the Ancient Bard; A Divine Image

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)

Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)

The Book of Urizen (1794)

from A Letter to the Revd. Dr. Trusler, 23 August 1799

from The Pickering Manuscript (composed 1800-4): The Mental Traveller; The Crystal Cabinet

from The Four Zoas: Enion's Lamentation (from 'Night the Second', pp. 35-6); Revival of the Eternal Man (from 'Night the Ninth', pp. 133-5)

from Milton: 'And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time'

Mary Robinson (1758-1800)

from Lyrical Tales (1800): The Haunted Beach

from Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson (1801): My First Encounter with the Prince of Wales; Mrs Robinson to the Poet Coleridge

Robert Burns (1759-96)

from Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786): Epistle to J. Lapraik, an Old Scotch Bard, 1 April 1785; To a Mouse, on Turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785; Man was Made to Mourn, A Dirge

from Francis Grose, The Antiquities of Scotland (1791): Tam o'Shanter. A Tale

Song ('Oh my love's like the red, red rose')

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97)

from A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790): On Poverty

from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792): On the Lack of Learning; A Revolution in Female manners; On State Education

from Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796): On Capital Punishment; Norwegian Morals

Helen Maria Williams (1762-1827)

from Poems (1786): sonnet to Twilight

from Letters Written in France in the Summer of 1790 (1790): A Visit to the Bastille; On Revolution; Retrospect from England

from Letters Containing a Sketch of Politics in France (1795): Madame Roland

William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850)

from Fourteen Sonnets (1789): Sonnet VIII. To the River Itchin, near Winton

Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)

from A Series of Plays (1798): On passion (from 'Introductory Discourse')

John Thelwall (1764-1834)

from The Peripatetic (1793): The Old Peasant

from poems Written in Close Confinement in the Tower and Newgate upon a Charge of Treason (1795): Stanzas on Hearing for Certainty that we were to be Tried for High Treason

from The Tribune (1795): Dangerous Tendency of the Attempt to Suppress Political Discussion; Civic Oration on the Anniversary of the Acquittal of the Lecturer [5 December] being a Vindication of the Principles, and a Review of the Conduct that Placed him at the Bar of the Old Bailey. Delivered Wednesday 9 December 1795 (extract)

from A Letter from John Thelwall to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 10 May 1796

from Poems Written Chiefly in Retirement (1801): Lines Written at Bridgwater in Somersetshire, on 27 July 1797, during a Long Excursion in Quest of a Peaceful Retreat (extract); To the Infant Hampden. Written during a Sleepless Night. Derby, October 1797.

Mary Anne Lamb (1764-1847)

from Letter from Mary Anne Lamb to Dorothy Wordsworth, 7 May 1805

from London Magazine, 6 (1822) 36: The Two Boys

from The Keepsake for 1829 (1828): What is Love?

Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)

from The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794): Rondeau

from A Journey Made in the Summer of 1794 (1795): The Road to Emont; The Jaws of Borrowdale; Grasmere

James Mackintosh (1765-1832)

from Vindiciae Gallicae (1791): Popular Excesses which Attended the Revolution

Robert Bloomfield (1767-1823)

from The Farmer's Boy (1800): Spring (extract); Summer (extract)

Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849)

from Letters for Literary Ladies (1795): Letter IV: Caroline to Lady V., upon her Intended Separation from her Husband (extract)

from The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, ed. Augustus J. C. Hare (1894): Letter from Maria Edgeworth to Mrs Stark, 6 September 1834 (extract)

Amelia Opie (1769-1853)

from Poems (1808): Stanzas Written under Aeolus' Harp

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Lyrical Ballads (1798): Advertisement (by Wordsworth); The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Part (by Coleridge); The Foster-Mother's Tale: A Dramatic Fragment (by Coleridge); Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree which Stands near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a Desolate Part of the Shore, yet Commanding a Beautiful Prospect (by Wordsworth); The Nightingale; A Conversational Poem, Written in April 1798 (by Coleridge); The Female Vagrant (by Wordsworth); Goody Blake and harry Gill: A True Story (by Wordsworth); Lines Written at a Small Distance from my House, and Sent by my Little Boy to the Person to whom they are Addressed (by Wordsworth); Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman, with an Incident in which he was Concerned (By Wordsworth); Anecdote for Fathers, Showing how the Art of Lying may be Taught (by Wordsworth); We are Seven (by Wordsworth); Lines Written in Early Spring (by Wordsworth); The Thorn (by Wordsworth); The Last of the Flock (by Wordsworth); The Dungeon (by Coleridge); The Mad Mother (by Wordsworth); The Idiot Boy (by Wordsworth); Lines Written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening (by Wordsworth); Expostulation and Reply (by Wordsworth); The Tables Turned: An Evening Scene, on the Same Subject (by Wordsworth); Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquility and Decay, A Sketch (by Wordsworth); The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman (by Wordsworth); The Convict (by Wordsworth); Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, 13 July 1798 (by Wordsworth)
from Lyrical Ballads (2nd ed., 1800): Strange Fits of Passion I Have Known; Song ('She dwelt among th'untrodden ways'); A Slumber did my Spirit Seal; Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower

Prospectus to 'The Recluse'

from Lyrical Ballads (2nd ed., 1800): Note to 'The Thorn'

from Poems in Two Volumes (1807): I Travelled among Unknown Men

from Lyrical Ballads (1802): Preface; Appendix

from Poems in Two Volumes (1807): The Rainbow

'These Chairs they have no Words to Utter'

from Poems in Two Volumes (1807): Resolution and Independence; The World is Too Much with Us

Dear Native Brooks, Your Ways I have Pursued

from Poems in Two Volumes (1807): To Toussaint L'Ouverture; 1 September 1802; Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802; London 1802; Ode; Daffodils; Stepping Westward; The Solitary Reaper

The Thirteen-Book Prelude (1799-1806 MS)

from Poems in Two Volumes (1807): Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont; A Complaint

from Poems (1815): Preface (extract)

from The Newcastle Journal, 4 (5 December 1835), no. 188: Extempore Effusion, Upon Reading, in the Newcastle Journal, the Notice of the Death of the Poet, James Hogg

from The Fenwick Notes (dictated 1843): On the 'Ode' (extract); On 'We are Seven' (extract)

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

from The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805): Caledonia (from Canto Six)

from Marmion (1808): Lochinvar (from Canto Five)

from Tales of my Landlord (1819): Lucy Ashton's Song (from 'The Bride of Lammermoor')

from J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Scott (1837-8): Scott's Diary: 12 February 1826

James Hogg (1770-1835)

from The Queen's Wake (1813): The Witch of Fife

Barbara Hoole (1770-1844)

from Poems (1805): Cumberland Rocks

Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855)

from The Grasmere Journals: Wednesday 3 September 1800; Friday 3 October 1800 (extract); Thursday 15 April 1802; Thursday 29 April 1802; 4 October 1802

A Cottage in Grasmere Vale

After-recollection at Sight of the Same Cottage

A Winter's Ramble in Grasmere Vale

A Sketch

Floating Island at Hawkshead: An Incident in the Schemes of Nature

Thoughts on my Sickbed

When Shall I Tread Your Garden Path

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

from Sonnets from Various Authors (1796): Sonnet V. To the River Otter

from Letter from S. T. Coleridge to George Dyer, 10 March 1795

from Poems on Various Subjects (1796): The Eolian Harp (published as Effusion XXXV. Composed 20 August 1795, at Clevedon, Somersetshire); Religious Musings (extract)

from Poems (1797): Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement

from Letter from S. T. Coleridge to John Thelwall, 19 November 1796

from The Annual Anthology (1800): This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, A Poem Addressed to Charles Lamb of the India House, London

from Letter from S. T. Coleridge to John Thelwall, 14 October 1797

from Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 16 October 1797

from Christabel; Kubla Khan: A Vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816): Kubla Khan

from Fears in Solitude, Written in 1798 during the Alarm of an Invasion; to which are added France: An Ode; and Frost at Midnight (1798): Frost at Midnight; France: An Ode; Fears in Solitude

from Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 6 April 1799

from The Annual Anthology (1800): Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest

from Christabel; Kubla Khan: A Vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816): Christabel

Letter to Sara Hutchinson, 4 April 1802. Sunday Evening.

The Day-Dream

from Morning Post, no. 10,584 (6 September 1802): The Picture; or, The Lover's Resolution

from Morning Post, no. 10,589 (11 September 1802): Chamouny; the Hour Before Sunrise. A Hymn.

from Morning Post, no 10,608 (4 October 1802): Dejection: An Ode, written 4 April 1802

from Morning Post, no. 10,614 (11 October 1802): Spots in the Sun

from Christabel; Kubla Khan: A Vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816): The Pains of Sleep

from Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 14 October 1803

To William Wordsworth. Lines composed, for the Greater Part, on the Night on which he Finished the Recitation of his Poems in Thirteen Books, Concerning the Growth and History of his own Mind, January 1807, Coleorton, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch

On Donne's First Poem

from Letter from S. T. Coleridge to William Wordsworth, 30 May 1815

from Biographia Literaria, ed. Henry Nelson and Sara Coleridge (1847): Chapter 13 (extract); Chapter 14 (extracts)

from Christabel; Kubla Khan: A Vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816): Of the Fragment of 'Kubla Khan'

from Sibylline Leaves (1817): The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In Seven Parts.

from Table Talk: On 'The Ancient Mariner' (dictated 30 May 1830); The True Way for a Poet (dictated 19 September 1830); On 'The Recluse' (dictated 21 July 1832); Keats (dictated 11 August 1832)

Mary Tighe (1772-1810)

from Psyche, with Other Poems (3rd ed., 1811): Psyche; or The Legend of Love (extract)

Francis, Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850)

from Edinburgh Review, 24 (1814) 1-30: Review of William Wordsworth, 'The Excursion' (extracts)

Robert Southey (1774-1843)

from Joan of Arc (1796): Natural Religion (Book III)

from Monthly Magazine, 4 (1797) 287: Hannah, A Plaintive Tale

from Morning Post, no. 9198 (30 June 1798): The Idiot

from Critical Review, 24 (1798) 197-204: Review of William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, 'Lyrical Ballads'

from Poems (1799): the Sailor who had Served in the Slave-Trade

from Annual Anthology (1800): The Battle of Blenheim

Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

from Letter from Charles Lamb to S. T. Coleridge, 27 September 1796

from Blank Verse by Charles Lloyd and Charles Lamb (1798): The Old Familiar Faces

from Letter from Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 30 January 1801

from Letter from Charles Lamb to Thomas Manning, 22 August 1801: On Mackintosh

from Letter from Charles Lamb to John Taylor, 30 June 1821

from Elia (1823): Imperfect Sympathies; Witches, and Other Night-Fears

Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

from Simonidea (1806): Rose Aylmer

from Imaginary Conversations (1824): Regeneration

from Gebir, Count Julian, and Other Poems (1831): Faesulan Idyll

from Leigh Hunt's London Journal, no. 63 (13 June 1835) 181: To the Sister of Charles Lamb

Charlotte Bury (1775-1861)

from Poems on Several Occasions (1797): False and Faithless as Thou Art

Charles Lloyd (1775-1839)

from Blank Verse by Charles Lloyd and Charles Lamb (1798): London

John Constable (1776-1837)

from Letter from John Constable to John Fisher, 23 October 1821

Mary Matilda Betham (1776-1852)

from E. Betham, A House of Letters (1905): From Matilda Betham's Notes

Sydney Owenson (1776-1859)

from The Lay of an Irish Harp, or Metrical Fragments (1807): The Irish Harp: Fragment I

Thomas Campbell (1777-1844)

from The Pleasures of Hope (1799): On Slavery

William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

from The Round Table (1817): On Gusto

from The Liberal, 2 (1823) 23-46: My First Acquaintance with Poets

from The Spirit of the Age (1825): Mr Coleridge

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

from The Poetical Works of the Late Thomas Little Esq. (1801): Love in a Storm

from Irish Melodies (2nd ed., 1822): Believe me, if all Those Endearing Young Charms; In the Morning of Life

John Taylor (1781-1864)

from London magazine, 3 (1821) 526: Sonnet on the Death of the Poet J. Keats

Charlotte Dacre (1782-1841)

from Hours of Solitude (1805): Il Trionfo del Amor; To him who Says he Loves

Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)

from The Examiner, no. 385 (14 May 1815) 316: To Hampstead

from Foliage (1818): To Percy Shelley, on the Degrading Notions of Deity; To the Same; To John Keats

from The Indicator, I (1820) 300-2: A Now, Descriptive of a Hot Day

from Morning Chronicle, 2 (1838) 436: Rondeau

John Wilson ('Christopher North') (1785-1854)

from The Isle of Palms and Other Poems (1812): Sonnet III. Written at Midnight, on Helm Crag; Sonnet VII. Written on Skiddaw, during a Tempest

from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 15 (1824) 371-3: Noctes Ambrosianae no. XIV (extract)

Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)

from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822): Ann of Oxford Street; The Malay; The Pains of Opium; Oriental Dreams; Easter Sunday

from London Magazine, 8 (1823) 353-6: On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth

from Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, 6 (1839) 94: On Wordsworth's 'There Was a Boy'

from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 57 (1845): Suspiria de Profundis: The Affliction of Childhood (extract); Suspiria de Profundis: The Palimpsest (extract); Suspiria de Profundis: Finale to Part I. Savannah-la-Mar

Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)

A New Canto (1819)

from Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron with Some Original Poetry, Letters and Recollections of Lady Caroline Lamb, ed. I. Nathan (1829): My Heart's Fit to Break; Would I had Seen Thee Dead and Cold

Caroline Anne Bowles (1786-1854)

from Ellen Fitzarthur: A Metrical Tale (1820): Stanzas

from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 13 (1823) 275: There is a Tongue in every Leaf

Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846)

The Immortal Dinner. 28 December 1817

Bryan Waller Procter ('Barry Cornwall') (1787-1874)

from Dramatic Scenes and Other Poems (1819): A Dream

from English Songs (1832): A Poet's Thought

Richard Woodhouse, Jr. (1788-1834)

Letter from Richard Woodhouse to John Taylor, 27 October 1818

from Letter from Richard Woodhouse to John Taylor, 19 September 1819

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824)

from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt (1812): Written Beneath a Picture

from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt (2nd ed., 1812): Stanzas
from Hebrew Melodies (1815): She Walks in Beauty

from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816)

from The Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems (1816): Prometheus; Darkness

Manfred, A Dramatic Poem (1817)

from Letter from Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 February 1817 (including 'So We'll Go No More A-roving')

Don Juan (1819)

To the Po. 2 June 1819

from Letter from Lord Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1819

Messalonghi, 22 January 1824. On this Day I Complete my Thirty-sixth Year.

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

from Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude, and Other Poems (1816): Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude; To Wordsworth

from The Examiner, no. 473 (19 January 1817) 41: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty

from Letter from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock

from History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a Part of France, and Switzerland, Germany, and Holland, by Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley (1817): Mont Blanc. Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni

from The Examiner, no. 524 (11 January 1818) 24: Ozymandias

On Love

from Rosalind and Helen (1819): Lines Written among the Euganean Hills, October 1818

from Prometheus Unbound (1820): Ode to the West Wind

from Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments (1840): On Life

England in 1819

from Prometheus Unbound (1820): Prometheus Unbound; A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts

The Mask of Anarchy. Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester

from Prometheus Unbound (1820): To a Skylark

A Defence of Poetry; or, Remarks Suggested by an Essay Entitled 'The Four Ages of Poetry'

Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. (1821)

Lines to Lord Byron

Felicia Hemans (1793-1835)

from Records of Woman (1828): Indian Woman's Death Song; The Grave of a Poetess; Mozart's Requiem

from Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems (1830): The Land of Dreams; Nature's Farewell; Second Sight

from New Monthly Magazine, 43 (1835) 329: Thoughts During Sickness: II. Sickness Like Night.

John Clare (1793-1864)

from London Magazine, 6 (1822) 151: To Elia

Sonnet

from The Shepherd's Calendar
January (A Cottage Evening) (extract)
June (extract)

A Vision

'I Am'

An Invite to Eternity

Silent Love

'O Could I be as I Have Been'

First Love

John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854)

from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 3 (1818) 519-24: The Cockney School of Poetry, no. IV (extracts)

from Andrew Lang, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (1897): When Youthful Faith has Fled

John Keats (1795-1821)

from Poems (1817): On First Looking into Chapman's Homer; Addressed to Haydon

from Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1818); Book I (extracts): 'A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever'; Hymn to Pan; The Pleasure Thermometer

from Letter from John Keats to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817

from Letter from John Keats to George and Tom Keats, 21 December 1817

On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again

Sonnet ('When I have fears that I may cease to be')

from Letter from John Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 February 1818

from Letter from John Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 May 1818

Letter from John Keats to Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 1818

from Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820): Hyperion: A Fragment; The Eve of St. Agnes

from Letter from John Keats to George and Georgiana Keats, 16 April 1819

La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad

from Letter from John Keats to George and Georgiana Keats, 21 April 1819

from Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820): Ode to Psyche; Ode to a Nightingale; Ode on a Grecian Urn; Ode on Melancholy

Ode on Indolence

from Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820): To Autumn

The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream

Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art

George Darley (1795-1846)

from The Labours of Idleness by Guy Penseval (1826): 'My Bower is in a Green Dell'

from Literary Gazette, no. 586 (12 April 1828) 236: A Song

from The Athenaeum, no. 430 (23 January 1836) 67: Serenade of a Loyal Martyr

Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849)

from Poems (1833): Sonnet IX

from Essays and Marginalia (1851): VII; XV. To Wordsworth

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851)

from Journals (edited from MS): 28 May 1817; 15 May 1824

On Reading Wordsworth's Lines on Peele Castle

A Dirge

Oh Listen While I Sing to Thee

from The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. Mary Shelley (1839): Note on the 'Prometheus Unbound' (extracts)

Thomas Hood (1799-1845)

from London Magazine, 7 (1823) 187-8: Ode: Autumn

from London Magazine, 7 (1823) 541: Sonnet Written in Keats' Endymion

from The Plea of the Midsummer Fairies (1827): The Water Lady

Louisa Costello (1799-1870)

from Songs of a Stranger (1825): Lines; Spirit's Song

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-38)

from The Improvisatrice and Other Poems (1824): When Should Lovers Breathe Their Vows?

from New Monthly Magazine, 44 (1835) 286-8: Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans

from The Zenana, and Minor Poems of L.E.L. (1839): On Wordsworth's Cottage, near Grasmere Lake

from Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L. (1841): A Poet's Love

Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-49)

from Poems by the Late Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1851): Dream-Pedlary; The Phantom-Wooer

from Death's Jest-Book, or The Fool's Tragedy (1850): Song by Isbrand

Elizabeth Barrett (1806-61)

from Globe and Traveller, no. 6733 (30 June 1824): Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron

from New Monthly Magazine, 45 (1835) 82: Stanzas Addressed to Miss Landon, and suggested by her 'Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans'

from The Athenaeum, no. 587 (26 January 1839) 69: L.E.L.'s Last Question

from The Athenaeum, no. 783 (29 October 1842) 932: Sonnet on Mr Haydon's Portrait of Mr Wordsworth

John Stuart Mill (1806-73)

from Autobiography (1873): A Crisis in My Mental History

Caroline Norton (1808-77)

from The Undying One (1830): My Childhood's Home; As when from Dreams Awaking; Dreams

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-92)

from Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830): Mariana

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