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Blackwell: Oxford, 1998
Introduction
Editorial Principles
Schedule of Manuscripts
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Anna Seward (1742-1809)
Sonnet written from an Eastern Apartment in the Bishop's Palace at Lichfield, which commands a view of Stowe Valley. April 1771 (edited from MS)
From Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems (1796)
To Time Past. Written Dec. 1772
From Gentleman's Magazine 56 (1786) 791
Advice to Mrs Smith. A Sonnet
From Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems (1796)
Eyam (composed August 1788)
From Gentleman's Magazine 59 (1789) 743
Sonnet to France on her present Exertions
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (née Aikin) (1743-1825)
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem (composed by 1 December 1811; published February 1812)
Hannah More (1745-1833)
From Sacred Dramas: chiefly intended for young persons: the subjects taken from the Bible. To which is added, Sensibility, A Poem (1782)
Sensibility: A Poetical Epistle to the Hon. Mrs Boscawen
From Florio: A Tale, and The Bas Bleu; or, Conversation (1786)
The Bas-Bleu; or, Conversation. Addressed to Mrs Vesey
Slavery: A Poem (1788)
Cheap Repository: The Story of Sinful Sally. Told by Herself. (1796)
Susanna Blamire (1747-94)
A North Country Village (extract; edited from manuscript)
From Robert Anderson, Ballads in the Cumberland Dialect (Wigton, 1808)
Joe and Ned
Charlotte Smith (née Turner) (1749-1806)
Elegiac Sonnets: the third edition. With twenty additional sonnets. (1786)
To William Hayley, Esq.
Preface to the First Editions
Preface to the Third Edition
Sonnet I
Sonnet II. Written at the Close of Spring.
Sonnet III. To a Nightingale.
Sonnet IV. To the Moon.
Sonnet V. To the South Downs.
Sonnet VI. To Hope.
Sonnet VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale.
Sonnet VIII. To Spring.
Sonnet IX
Sonnet X. To Mrs G.
Sonnet XI. To Sleep.
Sonnet XII. Written on the Seashore. October 1784.
Sonnet XIII. From Petrarch.
Sonnet XIV. From Petrarch.
Sonnet XV. From Petrarch.
Sonnet XVI. From Petrarch.
Sonnet XVII. From the Thirteenth Cantata of Metastasio.
Sonnet XVIII. To the Earl of Egremont.
Sonnet XIX. To Mr Hayley. On Receiving some Elegant Lines from Him.
Sonnet XX. To the Countess of A--------. Written on the Anniversary of her Marriage.
Sonnet XXI. Supposed to be Written by Werther.
Sonnet XXII. By the Same. To Solitude.
Sonnet XXIII. By the Same. To the North Star.
Sonnet XXIV. By the Same.
Sonnet XXV. By the Same. Just before his Death.
Sonnet XXVI. To the River Arun.
Sonnet XXVII
Sonnet XXVIII. To Friendship.
Sonnet XXIX. To Miss C---------. On being Desired to Attempt Writing a Comedy.
Sonnet XXX. To the River Arun.
Sonnet XXXI. Written on Farm Wood, South Downs, in May 1784.
Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun, October 1785.
Sonnet XXXIII. To the Naiad of the Arun.
Sonnet XXXIV. To a Friend.
Sonnet XXXV. To Fortitude.
Sonnet XXXVI
The Emigrants, A Poem, in Two Books (1793)
To William Cowper, Esq.
Book I
Book II
From Beachy Head: with Other Poems (1807)
Beachy Head
Mary Scott (1751-93)
From The Female Advocate; A Poem. Occasioned by Reading Mr Duncombe's Feminiad (1774)
To a Lady (extract)
[On Elizabeth Montagu]
[On Anna Laetitia Aikin]
Phillis Wheatley (Mrs John Peters) (c. 1753-84)
From Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773)
Preface
On Being Brought from Africa to America
On Imagination
Anne Grant (née Macvicar) (1755-1838)
From The Highlanders, and Other Poems (1810)
[The Highland Poor; from Part II]
The Aged Bard's Wish (Translation of a Gaelic Poem Composed in the Isle of Skye)
From Essays on the Superstitions of the Highlanders of Scotland (1811)
Metrical Translation of the Song of Macgregor na Ruara
Ann Yearsley (née Cromartie) (1756-1806)
From Poems, on Several Occasions (1785)
On Mrs Montagu
From Poems on various subjects (1787)
Addressed to Sensibility
A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade (1788)
Reflections on the Death of Louis XVI (1793)
From The Rural Lyre (1796)
Extempore on Hearing a Gentleman play a hymn on his Flute, Thursday 31 July, Eleven at Night, 1795, near the Author's Window at Bristol Wells.
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806)
The Passage of the Mountain of St Gothard, A Poem (1802)
Mary Robinson (née Darby) (1758-1800)
From The Wild Wreath ed. Mary Elizabeth Robinson (1804)
A London Summer Morning (composed 1794)
Sappho and Phaon. In a Series of Legitimate Sonnets, with Thoughts on Poetical Subjects, and Anecdotes of the Grecian Poetess. (1796)
Preface
To the Reader
I. Sonnet introductory
II. The Temple of Chastity
III. The Bower of Pleasure
IV. Sappho discovers her passion
V. Contemns its power
VI. Describes the characteristics of love
VII. Invokes reason
VIII. Her passion increases
IX. Laments the volatility of Phaon
X. Describes Phaon
XI. Rejects the influence of reason
XII. Previous to her interview with Phaon
XIII. She endeavours to fascinate him
XIV. To the Aeolian harp
XV. Phaon awakes
XVI. Sappho rejects hope
XVII. The tyranny of love
XVIII. To Phaon
XIX. Suspects his constancy
XX. To Phaon
XXI. Laments her early misfortunes
XXII. Phaon forsakes her
XXIII. Sappho's conjectures
XXIV. Her address to the moon
XXV. To Phaon
XXVI. Contemns philosophy
XXVII. Sappho's address to the stars
XXVIII. Describes the fascinations of love
XXIX. Determines to follow Phaon
XXX. Bids farewell to Lesbos
XXXI. Describes her bark
XXXII. Dreams of a rival
XXXIII. Reaches Sicily
XXXIV. Sappho's prayer to Venus
XXXV. Reproaches Phaon
XXXVI. Her confirmed despair
XXXVII. Foresees her death
XXXVIII. To a sigh
XXXIX. To the Muses
XL. Visions appear to her in a dream
XLI. Resolves to take the leap of Leucata
XLII. Her last appeal to Phaon
XLIII. Her reflections on the Leucadian rock before she perishes
XLIV. Sonnet conclusive
From Walsingham; or, the Pupil of Nature (1797)
Lines addressed by a young lady of fashion to a small green fly, which had pitched on the left ear of Lady Amaranth's little white barbet, Fidelio, on a summer evening, after a shower, near sunset
A thousand torments wait on love
From The Poetical Works of the Late Mrs Robinson (1806)
The Progress of Liberty, conclusion to Book I (composed 1798)
From Lyrical Tales (1800)
The Haunted Beach
The Negro Girl
From The Wild Wreath ed. Mary Elizabeth Robinson (1804)
The Poet's Garret (composed 1800)
From The Poetical Works of the Late Mrs Robinson (1806)
Ode Inscribed to the Infant Son of S. T. Coleridge, Esq. Born 14 September 1800 at Keswick in Cumberland.
The Savage of Aveyron (composed October 1800)
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851)
From Fugitive Verses (1840)
A Scotch Song
Song ('Poverty parts good company', for an old Scotch air)
Song
From The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie (1851)
Tam o' the Lin
Helen Maria Williams (1762-1827)
From Poems (1786)
Part of an Irregular Fragment, found in a Dark Passage of the Tower
A Poem on the Bill lately passed for Regulating the Slave-Trade (1788)
From Julia, A Novel (1790)
The Bastille, A Vision
A Farewell, for Two Years, to England. A Poem. (1791)
From Paul and Virginia (1796)
Sonnet to the Strawberry
Ann Radcliffe (née Ward) (1764-1823)
From The Romance of the Forest (1791)
Song of a Spirit
From The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
The Butterfly to his Love
To the Winds
From Gaston de Blondeville . . . with Some Poetical Pieces (1826)
A Sea-View
Scene on the Northern Shore of Sicily
The Snow-Fiend
Ann Batten Cristall (born c.1769)
Poetical Sketches, in Irregular Verse (1795)
Preface
Before Twilight. Eyzion.
Morning. Rosamonde.
Noon. Lysander.
Evening. Gertrude.
Night
Song ('Wandering in the still of eve')
Holbain
Song on Leaving the Country early in the Spring
Verses Written in the Spring
Written in Devonshire, near the Dart
Song (tune: The Heavy Hours)
Elegy on a Young Lady
The Triumph of Superstition. Raphael and Ianthe.
Song ('Tossed midst life's terrific storms')
A Fragment: The Blind Man
Thelmon and Carmel: An Irregular Poem
Part the First
Part the Second
Part the Third
Part the Fourth
Part the Fifth
Part the Sixth
Part the Seventh
Song ('Come, let us dance and sing')
Song ('The eve descends with radiant streaks')
To a Lady on the Rise of Morn
Song ('Through springtime walks with flowers perfumed')
Song ('Both gloomy and dark was the shadowy night')
Elegy
Written when the Mind was Oppressed
The Enthusiast. Arla.
A Song of Arla, Written during her Enthusiasm
An Ode
Ode on Truth: Addressed to George Dyer
Amelia Opie (née Alderson) (1769-1853)
From The Warrior's Return, and Other Poems (1808)
Ode to Borrowdale in Cumberland (written in 1794)
Lines written in 1799
From Poems (1802)
The Negro Boy's Tale
Charlotte Byrne (née King) (?1771/2-1825)
From Hours of Solitude (1805)
The Unfaithful Lover
The Poor Negro Sadi
The Female Philosopher
We Can Love But Once
From The Morning Post No. 11,563 (10 September 1805)
Wine, I say! I'll Drink to Madness!
Mary Tighe (née Blachford) (1772-1810)
Psyche; or, the Legend of Love (1805)
Preface
Sonnet Addressed to my Mother
Proem
Canto I
Canto II
Canto III
Canto IV
Canto V
Canto VI
From Psyche, with Other Poems (3rd edition, 1811)
On Receiving a branch of Mezereon which flowered at Woodstock, December 1809
Isabella Lickbarrow
From Poetical Effusions (1814)
On Sensibility: A Fragment
On Esthwaite Water
From The Westmorland Advertiser; or Kendal Chronicle, Vol.4, No.161
On the Slave-Trade
From The Westmorland Advertiser; or Kendal Chronicle, Vol.5, No.206
Patterdale
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan (1783-1859)
From The Lay of an Irish Harp; or Metrical Fragments (1807)
Fragment X. The Boudoir
Fragment XIX. L'Amant Mutin
Fragment XXXV. The Irish Jig
Lady Caroline Lamb (1785-1828)
By those eyes where sweet expression (edited from MS; composed c. 1816)
From Graham Hamilton (1822)
If thou couldst know what 'tis to weep
From Ada Reis (1823)
Sing not for others, but for me
Weep for what thou hast lost, love
Duet
From Fugitive Pieces and Reminiscences of Lord Byron with Some Original Poetry, Letters and Recollections of Lady Caroline Lamb ed. Isaac Nathan (1829)
Let the harp be mute for ever
William Lamb's Return from Paris, Asking me my Wish
Felicia Dorothea Hemans (née Browne) (1795-1835)
From Poems (1808)
Written on the Sea-Shore
From The Domestic Affections, and Other Poems (1812)
The Statue of the Dying Gladiator
To my Eldest Brother, with the British Army in Portugal
From Tales, and Historic Scenes, In Verse (1819)
The Last Banquet of Antony and Cleopatra
Stanzas to the Memory of the Late King (1820)
From Welsh Melodies (1822)
The Rock of Cader Idris
From The Siege of Valencia; a Dramatic Poem. The Last Constantine: With Other Poems (1823)
The Meeting of the Bards. Written for an Eisteddfod, or Meeting of Welsh Bards, held
in London, 22 May 1822
The Voice of Spring
From The Forest Sanctuary; and Other Poems (1825)
The Stranger in Louisiana
Ancient Greek Song of Exile
From Records of Woman: With Other Poems (1828)
Arabella Stuart
The Bride of the Greek Isle
The Switzer's Wife
Properzia Rossi
Gertrude, or Fidelity till Death
Imelda
Edith, a Tale of the Woods
The Indian City
The Peasant Girl of the Rhone
Indian Woman's Death Song
Joan of Arc, in Rheims
Pauline
Juana
The American Forest Girl
Costanza
Madeline, a Domestic Tale
The Queen of Prussia's Tomb
The Memorial Pillar
The Grave of a Poetess
Miscellaneous Poems
The Homes of England
To Wordsworth
The Spirit's Mysteries
The Illuminated City
The Graves of a Household
From The Forest Sanctuary: With Other Poems (second edition, 1829)
Casabianca
From Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems (1830)
To a Departed Spirit
The Chamois Hunter's Love
The Return
Woman on the Field of Battle
The Beings of the Mind
Second Sight
From Scenes and Hymns of Life, with other Religious Poems (1834)
Thought from an Italian Poet
From The Works of Mrs Hemans (1839)
Despondency and Aspiration
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-38)
From The Improvisatrice; and Other Poems. By L.E.L.
The Improvisatrice (extracts)
[Introduction]
[Sappho's Song]
[Lorenzo]
From The Golden Violet, with its Tales of Romance and Chivalry: and Other Poems (1827)
Love's Last Lesson
From Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book, 1838 (1838)
Felicia Hemans
From The Works of L. E. Landon (Philadelphia, 1838)
Airey Force
Scenes in London: Piccadilly
The Princess Victoria
Scale Force, Cumberland
From Laman Blanchard, Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L. (1841)
The Poet's Lot
Death in the Flower
Experience Too Late
The Farewell
Index of authors
Index to notes and headnotes
Index of titles and first lines
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