Romanticism:
An Anthology
Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1994.
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Contents
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
Bibliography
Index to the Notes
Index of Titles and First Lines
Go to the Revised Edition of this anthology,
forthcoming.
Go to Romantic Women Poets, also by Duncan
Wu.
Laura Mandell,
Dept. of English, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056; Laura Mandell's Home Page.