Romanticism: An Anthology, 3rd Edition,9781405120852

Romanticism: An Anthology, 3rd Edition

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Pub. Date: 2005-09-01
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Summary

Since it was first published in 1995, Duncan Wu's Romanticism: An Anthology has been used and appreciated by thousands of literature students and their teachers across the globe. Now, in response to feedback from the classroom, and extensive research into the needs of lecturers, Romanticism is back in a completely revised and expanded third edition. NEW ADDITIONS FOR THE THIRD EDITION: Completely revised and updated headnotes and footnotes, incorporating the latest scholarly insights Up-to-date lists of critical reading for each author Now features 36 illustrations, including 16 colour illustrations A chronology An entirely new introduction An in-depth selection of works by major women Romantic poets, including complete texts of Hannah More, 'Sensibility' (1782) and Slavery (1788); Ann Yearsley, Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade (1788); Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (1786), The Emigrants (1793) and 'Beachy Head' (1807); Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812); Helen Maria Williams, A Farewell, for two years, to England (1791); Felicia Dorothea Hemans, 'Records of Woman' sequence (all 19 poems) (1828) Enhanced selections for Wordsworth, Hazlitt, Coleridge and Shelley (among others) Romanticism: An Anthology remains theonly textbook of its kind to include complete and uncut texts of: Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798) Wordsworth, 'The Ruined Cottage', 'The Pedlar' and other Recluse fragments (1798) Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (1786) Felicia Dorothea Hemans, 'Records of Woman' sequence (all 19 poems) (1828) Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III and Don Juan Dedication, Cantos I and II All of the featured texts have been edited especially for students for this volume - from manuscript and early printed sources - by Duncan Wu.

Author Biography

Duncan Wu is a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford, and University Lecturer in English Literature. His numerous publications include A Companion to Romanticism (1997) Romanticism: A Critical Reader (1995), Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology (1997), an edition of William Wordsworth's The Five-Book Prelude (1997) and, with Tom Paulin, of William Hazlitt's The Plain-Speaker: Key Essays (1998), all available from Blackwell Publishing. He is also the editor of a nine volume edition of The Selected Writings of William Hazlitt (1998).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
xxvi
List of plates
xxvii
Abbreviations xxviii
Introduction xxx
Editorial Principles xliii
Acknowledgements xlv
A Romantic Timeline 1770--1851 xlviii
Richard Price (1723--1791)
3(3)
From A Discourse on the Love of our Country (1789)
[On Representation]
4(1)
[Prospects for Reform]
5(1)
Thomas Warton (1728--1790)
6(1)
From Poems (1777)
Sonnet IX. To the River Lodon
7(1)
Edmund Burke (1729--1797)
7(9)
From A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
Obscurity
9(1)
From Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
[History will record . . .]
10(1)
[The age of chivalry is gone]
11(2)
[On Englishness]
13(1)
[Society is a Contract]
14(2)
William Cowper (1731--1800)
16(7)
From The Task (1785)
[Crazy Kate] (Book I)
18(1)
[On Slavery] (Book II)
18(2)
[The Winter Evening] (Book IV)
20(1)
From Works (1835--7)
Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce, or The Slave Trader in the Dumps
21(2)
Thomas Paine (1737--1809)
23(4)
From Common Sense (1776)
Of the Origin and Design of Government in General
24(1)
From The Rights of Man Part I (1791)
[Freedom of Posterity]
24(1)
[On Revolution]
25(1)
From The Rights of Man Part II (1792)
[Republicanism]
26(1)
Anna Seward (1742--1809)
27(4)
Sonnet written from an Eastern Apartment in the Bishop's Palace at Lichfield
28(1)
From Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems (1796)
To Time Past. Written Dec. 1772
28(1)
From Gentleman's Magazine (1786)
Advice to Mrs Smith. A Sonnet
29(1)
From Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems (1796)
Eyam
30(1)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (nee Aikin) (1743--1825)
31(21)
From Poems (1773)
A Summer Evening's Meditation
35(3)
From Poems (1792)
Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade
38(3)
From Works (1825)
The Rights of Woman
41(1)
From The Monthly Magazine (1799)
To Mr Coleridge
42(2)
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem (1812)
44(8)
Hannah More (1745--1833)
52(25)
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
56(10)
Slavery: A Poem (1788)
66(7)
Cheap Repository
The Story of Sinful Sally. Told by Herself (1796)
73(4)
Charlotte Smith (nee Turner) (1749--1806)
77(65)
Elegiac Sonnets: The Third Edition. With Twenty Additional Sonnets (1786)
83(17)
To William Hayley, Esq
83(1)
Preface to the First Edition
84(1)
Preface to the Third Edition
84(1)
Sonnet I
84(1)
Sonnet II. Written at the Close of Spring
85(1)
Sonnet III. To a Nightingale
85(1)
Sonnet IV. To the Moon
86(1)
Sonnet V. To the South Downs
86(1)
Sonnet VI. To Hope
86(1)
Sonnet VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale
87(1)
Sonnet VIII. To Spring
87(1)
Sonnet IX.
88(1)
Sonnet X. To Mrs G.
88(1)
Sonnet XI. To Sleep
89(1)
Sonnet XII. Written on the Seashore. October 1784
89(1)
Sonnet XIII. From Petrarch
90(1)
Sonnet XIV. From Petrarch
90(1)
Sonnet XV. From Petrarch
90(1)
Sonnet XVI. From Petrarch
91(1)
Sonnet XVII. From the Thirteenth Cantata of Metastasio
91(1)
Sonnet XVIII. To the Earl of Egremont
92(1)
Sonnet XIX. To Mr Hayley. On Receiving some Elegant Lines from Him
92(1)
Sonnet XX. To the Countess of Abergavenny. Written on the Anniversary of her Marriage
93(1)
Sonnet XXI. Supposed to be Written by Werther
93(1)
Sonnet XXII. By the Same. To Solitude
94(1)
Sonnet XXIII. By the Same. To the North Star
94(1)
Sonnet XXIV. By the Same
94(1)
Sonnet XXV. By the Same. Just before his Death
95(1)
Sonnet XXVI. To the River Arun
95(1)
Sonnet XXVII
96(1)
Sonnet XXVIII. To Friendship
96(1)
Sonnet XXIX. To Miss C---. On being Desired to Attempt Writing a Comedy
97(1)
Sonnet XXX. To the River Arun
97(1)
Sonnet XXXI. Written on Farm Wood, South Downs, in May 1784
98(1)
Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun, October 1785
98(1)
Sonnet XXXIII. To the Naiad of the Arun
98(1)
Sonnet XXXIV. To a Friend
99(1)
Sonnet XXXV. To Fortitude
99(1)
Sonnet XXXVI
100(1)
The Emigrants: A Poem in Two Books (1793)
100(22)
Dedication: To William Cowper, Esq.
100(2)
Book I
102(9)
Book II
111(11)
From Beachy Head: with Other Poems (1807)
Beachy Head
122(20)
George Crabbe (1754--1832)
142(9)
From The Borough (1810) Letter XXII: The Poor of the Barough
Peter Grimes
143(8)
William Godwin (1756--1836)
151(4)
From Political Justice (2 vols, 1793)
[On Property]
153(1)
[Love of Justice]
153(1)
[On Marriage]
154(1)
Ann Yearsley (nee Cromartie) (1756--1806)
155(14)
From Poems on various subjects (1787)
Addressed to Sensibility
158(2)
A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade (1788)
160(9)
William Blake (1757--1827)
169(77)
All Religions Are One (composed c.1788)
174(1)
There is no Natural Religion (composed c.1788)
175(1)
The Book of Thel (1789)
176(3)
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789--94)
Songs of Innocence (1789)
179(12)
Introduction
179(1)
The Shepherd
180(1)
The Echoing Green
180(1)
The Lamb
181(1)
The Little Black Boy
181(1)
The Blossom
182(1)
The Chimney Sweeper
183(1)
The Little Boy Lost
183(1)
The Little Boy Found
184(1)
Laughing Song
184(1)
A Cradle Song
184(1)
The Divine Image
185(1)
Holy Thursday
186(1)
Night
186(1)
Spring
187(1)
Nurse's Song
188(1)
Infant Joy
189(1)
A Dream
189(1)
On Another's Sorrow
190(1)
Songs of Experience (1794)
191(15)
Introduction
191(1)
Earth's Answer
191(1)
The Clod and the Pebble
192(1)
Holy Thursday
192(1)
The Little Girl Lost
193(1)
The Little Girl Found
194(1)
The Chimney Sweeper
195(1)
Nurse's Song
196(1)
The Sick Rose
196(1)
The Fly
196(1)
The Angel
197(1)
The Tyger
197(1)
My Pretty Rose-Tree
198(1)
Ah, Sunflower!
198(1)
The Lily
198(1)
The Garden of Love
199(1)
The Little Vagabond
199(1)
London
199(2)
The Human Abstract
201(1)
Infant Sorrow
202(1)
A Poison Tree
202(1)
A Little Boy Lost
202(1)
A Little Girl Lost
203(1)
To Tirzah
204(1)
The Schoolboy
205(1)
The Voice of the Ancient Bard
205(1)
A Divine Image
206(1)
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)
206(17)
The Argument
206(1)
The Voice of the Devil
207(1)
A Memorable Fancy [The Five Senses]
208(1)
Proverbs of Hell
209(2)
A Memorable Fancy [Isaiah and Ezekiel]
211(1)
A Memorable Fancy [A Printing-House in Hell]
212(1)
A Memorable Fancy [The Vanity of Angels]
213(2)
A Memorable Fancy [A Devil, My Friend]
215(1)
A Song of Liberty
216(1)
Chorus
217(1)
Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)
217(1)
The Argument
217(1)
Visions
218(5)
The First Book of Urizen (1794)
223(17)
Preludium to the First Book of Urizen
223(1)
Chapter I
224(1)
Chapter II
225(1)
Chapter III
226(3)
Chapter IVa
229(1)
Chapter IVb
229(3)
Chapter V
232(2)
Chapter VI
234(1)
Chapter VII
235(2)
Chapter VIII
237(1)
Chapter IX
238(2)
Letter from William Blake to the Revd Dr Trusler, 23 August 1799 (extract)
240(1)
From The Pickering Manuscript (composed 1800--4)
The Mental Traveller
241(3)
The Crystal Cabinet
244(1)
From Milton (composed 1803--8)
[And did those feet in ancient time]
245(1)
Mary Robinson (nee Darby) (1758--1800)
246(14)
From The Wild Wreath (1804)
A London Summer Morning
249(1)
From Lyrical Tales (1800)
The Haunted Beach
250(2)
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.
252(2)
From Memoirs of the Late Mrs Robinson (1801)
Mrs Robinson to the Poet Coleridge
254(2)
From The Wild Wreath (1804)
The Savage of Aveyron
256(4)
Robert Burns (1759--1796)
260(16)
From Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786)
Epistle to J. L*****k, an old Scotch bard, 1 April 1785
262(4)
Man was Made to Mourn, A Dirge
266(2)
To a Mouse, on turning her up in her nest, with the plough, November 1785
268(2)
From Francis Grose, The Antiquities of Scotland (1791)
Tam o' Shanter. A Tale
270(6)
Song ['Oh my love's like the red, red rose']
276(1)
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759--1797)
276(9)
From A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
[On Poverty]
278(1)
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
Introduction
279(3)
[On the Lack of Learning]
282(1)
[A Revolution in Female Manners]
283(1)
[On State Education]
283(2)
Helen Maria Williams (1762--1827)
285(22)
From Poems (1786)
Part of an Irregular Fragment, found in a Dark Passage of the Tower
290(6)
From Letters written in France in the summer of 1790 (1790)
[A Visit to the Bastille]
296(1)
[On Revolution]
297(1)
[Retrospect from England]
298(1)
From Julia, A Novel (1790)
The Bastille, A Vision
299(2)
A Farewell, for Two Years, to England. A Poem (1791)
301(5)
From Letters containing a Sketch of the Politics of France (1795)
[Madame Roland]
306(1)
Joanna Baillie (1762--1851)
307(8)
From A Series of Plays (1798)
Introductory Discourse (extracts)
308(7)
William Lisle Bowles (1762--1851)
315(1)
From Fourteen Sonnets (1789)
Sonnet VIII. To the River Itchin, near Winton
315(1)
John Thelwall (1764--1834)
316(11)
From PoemsWritten 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
318(1)
From The Tribune (1795)
Dangerous tendency of the attempt to suppress political discussion
319(1)
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 (extracts)
320(1)
Letter from John Thelwall to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 10 May 1796 (extract)
321(1)
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
322(5)
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798)
327(84)
Contents of Lyrical Ballads (1798) are presented in the order in which they appeared when first published in volume form, not that of composition as elsewhere in this volume.
Advertisement (Wordsworth)
330(2)
The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in seven parts (Coleridge)
332(17)
The Foster-Mother's Tale: A Dramatic Fragment (Coleridge)
349(3)
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 (Wordsworth)
352(1)
The Nightingale; A Conversational Poem, written in April 1798 (Coleridge)
353(3)
The Female Vagrant (Wordsworth)
356(7)
Goody Blake and Harry Gill: A True Story (Wordsworth)
363(3)
Lines written at a small distance from my house, and sent by my little boy to the person to whom they are addressed (Wordsworth)
366(2)
Simon Lee, the old Huntsman, with an incident in which he was concerned (Wordsworth)
368(2)
Anecdote for Fathers, showing how the art of lying may be taught (Wordsworth)
370(2)
We are seven (Wordsworth)
372(2)
Lines written in early spring (Wordsworth)
374(1)
The Thorn (Wordsworth)
375(7)
The Last of the Flock (Wordsworth)
382(2)
The Dungeon (Coleridge)
384(1)
The Mad Mother (Wordsworth)
385(3)
The Idiot Boy (Wordsworth)
388(11)
Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening (Wordsworth)
399(1)
Expostulation and Reply (Wordsworth)
400(1)
The Tables Turned: an evening scene, on the same subject (Wordsworth)
401(1)
Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch (Wordsworth)
402(1)
The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman (Wordsworth)
403(2)
The Convict (Wordsworth)
405(2)
Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, 13 July 1798 (Wordsworth)
407(4)
William Wordsworth (1770--1850)
411(173)
A Night-Piece
417(1)
The Discharged Soldier
418(4)
The Ruined Cottage
422(13)
First Part
422(5)
Second Part
427(8)
The Pedlar
435(9)
[Not useless do I deem]
444(3)
[Away, away -- it is the air]
447(1)
[The Two-Part Prelude]
448(25)
First Part
448(12)
Second Part
460(13)
[There is an active principle] (extract)
473(1)
From Lyrical Ballads (1800)
[There was a boy]
474(1)
Nutting
475(1)
[Strange fits of passion I have known]
476(1)
Song ('She dwelt among th' untrodden ways')
477(1)
[A slumber did my spirit seal]
478(1)
[Three years she grew in sun and shower]
478(1)
[The Prelude: Glad Preamble]
479(2)
[Prospectus to `The Recluse']
481(2)
From Lyrical Ballads (1800)
The Brothers: A Pastoral Poem
483(12)
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
495(12)
Note to `The Thorn'
507(2)
Note to Coleridge's `The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'
509(1)
Michael: A Pastoral Poem
510(12)
From Poems in Two Volumes (1807)
[I travelled among unknown men]
522(1)
From Lyrical Ballads (1802)
Appendix to the Preface to Lyrical Ballads: On Poetic Diction (extracts)
522(3)
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (extracts from revised text)
525(2)
From Poems in Two Volumes (1807)
To H.C., Six Years Old
527(1)
The Rainbow
528(1)
[These chairs they have no words to utter]
528(1)
From Poems in Two Volumes (1807)
Resolution and Independence
529(4)
[I grieved for Buonaparte]
533(1)
[The world is too much with us]
534(1)
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802
534(1)
To Toussaint L'Ouverture
535(1)
[It is a beauteous evening, calm and free]
536(1)
1 September 1802
536(1)
London 1802
537(1)
[Great men have been among us]
537(1)
Ode (from 1815: Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood)
538(5)
From The Five-Book Prelude
543(3)
[The Infant Prodigy] (from Book IV)
543(3)
From Poems (1815)
Daffodils ('I wandered lonely as a cloud')
546(1)
From Poems in Two Volumes (1807)
Stepping Westward
547(1)
The Solitary Reaper
548(1)
From The Thirteen-Book Prelude
[The Arab Dream] (from Book V)
549(4)
[Crossing the Alps] (from Book VI)
553(3)
[The London Beggar] (from Book VII)
556(1)
[London and the Den of Yordas] (from Book VIII)
556(2)
[Paris, December 1791] (from Book IX)
558(1)
[Blois, Spring 1792] (from Book IX)
559(1)
[Beaupuy] (from Book IX)
560(3)
[Godwinism] (from Book X)
563(1)
[Confusion and Recovery; Racedown, Spring 1796] (from Book X)
564(2)
[The Climbing of Snowdon] (from Book XIII)
566(4)
From Poems in Two Volumes (1807)
Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont
570(2)
A Complaint
572(1)
Star Gazers
573(1)
[St Paul's]
574(1)
From Poems (1815)
Surprised by joy -- impatient as the wind
575(1)
From Poems (1815)
Preface (extract)
575(3)
From The River Duddon (1820)
Conclusion ('I thought of thee, my partner and my guide')
578(1)
From The Fourteen-Book Prelude (1850), Book VII (extract)
[Genius of Burke!]
579(1)
From Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems (1835)
Airey-Force Valley
580(1)
From Poetical Works (1836)
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
580(2)
From The Fenwick Notes (1843)
[On the `Ode'] (extract)
582(1)
[On `We are Seven'] (extract)
583(1)
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771--1855)
584(8)
From The Grasmere Journals
Wednesday 3 September 1800
585(1)
Friday 3 October 1800 (extract)
586(1)
Thursday 15 April 1802
586(1)
Thursday 29 April 1802
587(1)
4 October 1802
588(1)
A Cottage in Grasmere Vale
588(1)
After-recollection at sight of the same cottage
589(1)
A Sketch
589(1)
Thoughts on my Sickbed
590(2)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834)
592(122)
From Sonnets from Various Authors (1796)
Sonnet V. To the River Otter
598(1)
Letter from S. T. Coleridge to George Dyer, 10 March 1795 (extract)
599(1)
From Poems on Various Subjects (1796)
Effusion XXXV. Composed 20 August 1795, at Clevedon, Somersetshire parallel text
600(1)
From Poetical Works (1834)
The Eolian Harp. Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire (1834) parallel text
601(5)
From Poems (1797)
Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement
606(2)
Religious Musings (extract)
608(2)
Letter from S. T. Coleridge to John Thelwall, 19 November 1796 (extract)
610(2)
Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Robert Southey, 17 July 1797 (extract)
612(1)
(including early version of This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison) parallel text
613(1)
From Poetical Works (1834)
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison (1834) parallel text
613(5)
Letter from S. T. Coleridge to John Thelwall, 14 October 1797 (extract)
618(1)
Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 16 October 1797 (extract)
618(1)
From Christabel; Kubla Khan: A Vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816)
Of the Fragment of `Kubla Khan'
619(1)
[Kubla Khan] (MS) parallel text
620(1)
Kubla Khan (1816) parallel text
621(3)
From Fears in Solitude, written in 1798. during an alarm of an invasion; to which are added France: an Ode; and Frost at Midnight (1798)
624(1)
From Poetical Works (1834)
624(15)
Frost at Midnight (1834) parallel text
625(5)
France: An Ode
630(3)
Fears in Solitude. Written April 1798, During the Alarms of an Invasion
633(6)
From Christabel; Kubla Khan: a vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816)
Christabel
639(1)
Preface
639(1)
Part I
640(6)
The Conclusion to Part I
646(1)
Part II
647(8)
The Conclusion to Part II
655(1)
Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 6 April 1799 (extract)
656(1)
From The Annual Anthology (1800)
Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest
657(1)
The Day-Dream
658(1)
From The Morning Post (6 September 1802)
The Picture; or, The Lover's Resolution
659(4)
A Letter to Sara Hutchinson, 4 April 1802. Sunday Evening.
663(9)
From Poetical Works (1828)
A Day-Dream
672(1)
From Sibylline Leaves (1817)
Dejection: An Ode
673(4)
From The Morning Post (11 September 1802)
Chamouny; the Hour Before Sunrise. A Hymn
677(3)
Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Robert Southey, 11 September 1803 (extract) (including early version of The Pains of Sleep) parallel text
680(1)
From Christabel; Kubla Khan: a vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816)
The Pains of Sleep (1816) parallel text
681(3)
From The Morning Post (11 October 1802)
Epigram on Spots in the Sun, from Wernicke
684(1)
Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 14 October 1803 (extract)
684(1)
Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Richard Sharp, 15 January 1804 (extract)
685(1)
To William Wordsworth. Lines composed, for the greater part, on the night on which he finished the recitation of his poem in Thirteen Books, concerning the growth and history of his own mind, January 1807, Coleorton, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch
686(3)
Letter from S. T. Coleridge to William Wordsworth, 30 May 1815 (extract)
689(2)
From Biographia Literaria (1817)
Chapter 13 (extract)
691(1)
Chapter 14 (extracts)
692(2)
From Sibylline Leaves (1817)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In seven parts.
694(17)
From Poetical Works (1829)
Constancy to an Ideal Object
711(1)
From Table Talk (edited from MS)
[On `The Ancient Mariner']
712(1)
[The True Way for a Poet]
712(1)
[On `The Recluse']
712(1)
[Keats]
713(1)
Francis, Lord Jeffrey (1773--1850)
714(6)
From Edinburgh Review (November 1814)
Review of William Wordsworth, `The Excursion' (extracts)
715(5)
Robert Southey (1774--1843)
720(15)
From The Monthly Magazine (October 1797)
Hannah, A Plaintive Tale
724(1)
From The Morning Post (30 June 1798)
The Idiot
725(2)
From The Morning Post (9 August 1798)
The Battle of Blenheim
727(2)
From The Morning Post (26 September 1798)
Night
729(1)
From Critical Review (October 1798)
Review of William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, `Lyrical Ballads' (1798)
730(2)
From Poems (1799)
The Sailor who had Served in the Slave-Trade
732(3)
Charles Lamb (1775--1834)
735(18)
From Blank Verse by Charles Lloyd and Charles Lamb (1798)
The Old Familiar Faces
739(1)
From The Annual Anthology (1799)
Living without God in the World
740(1)
Letter from Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 30 January 1801 (extract)
741(1)
Letter from Charles Lamb to John Taylor, 30 June 1821 (extract)
742(1)
From Elia (1823)
Imperfect Sympathies
742(6)
Witches, and Other Night-Fears
748(5)
William Hazlitt (1778--1830)
753(39)
From The Round Table (1817)
On Gusto
756(3)
From The New Monthly Magazine (February 1822)
The Fight
759(12)
From The Liberal (April 1823)
My First Acquaintance with Poets
771(13)
From The Spirit of the Age (1825)
Mr Coleridge
784(8)
James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784--1859)
792(13)
From The Examiner (14 May 1815)
To Hampstead
795(1)
From The Story of Rimini, A Poem (1816)
Canto III. The Fatal Passion (extract)
796(5)
From The Examiner (21 September 1817)
On the Grasshopper and Cricket
801(1)
From Foliage (1818)
To Percy Shelley, on the degrading notions of deity
802(1)
To the Same
802(1)
To John Keats
803(1)
From The Indicator (1820)
A Now, Descriptive of a Hot Day
803(2)
Thomas De Quincey (1785--1859)
805(28)
From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)
[Ann of Oxford Street]
810(2)
[The Malay]
812(2)
[The Pains of Opium]
814(2)
[The Pains of Opium: Visions of Piranesi]
816(1)
[Oriental Dreams]
816(2)
[Easter Sunday]
818(2)
From London Magazine (October 1823)
On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth
820(3)
From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (February 1839)
[On Wordsworth's `There was a boy']
823(2)
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (March 1845)
Suspiria de Profundis: The Affliction of Childhood (extract)
825(5)
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (June 1845)
Suspiria de Profundis: The Palimpsest (extract)
830(1)
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (July 1845)
Suspiria de Profundis: Finale to Part I. Savannah-la-Mar
831(2)
Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786--1846)
833(4)
[The Immortal Dinner]
834(3)
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788--1824)
837(202)
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt (1812)
Written Beneath a Picture
846(1)
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt (2nd edn, 1812)
Stanzas
846(2)
From Hebrew Melodies (1815)
She Walks in Beauty
848(1)
From Poems (1816)
When we two parted
849(1)
Fare Thee Well!
850(2)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto the Third (1816)
852(35)
From The Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems (1816)
Prometheus
887(1)
Stanzas to Augusta
888(2)
Epistle to Augusta
890(4)
From The Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems (1816)
Darkness
894(2)
Manfred, A Dramatic Poem (1817)
896(36)
Dramatis Personae
896(1)
Act I
896(10)
Act II
906(15)
Act III
921(11)
Letter from Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 February 1817 (extract) (including `So we'll go no more a-roving')
932(1)
Don Juan (1819)
Dedication
933(5)
Canto I
938(50)
Canto II
988(48)
To the Po. 2 June 1819
1036(1)
Letter from Lord Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1819 (extract)
1037(1)
Messalonghi, 22 January 1824. On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year
1037(2)
Richard Woodhouse, Jr (1788--1834)
1039(4)
Letter from Richard Woodhouse to John Taylor, c.27 October 1818 (extract)
1040(1)
Letter from Richard Woodhouse to John Taylor, 19 September 1819 (extract)
1041(2)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822)
1043(180)
From Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude, and Other Poems (1816)
To Wordsworth
1052(1)
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
1053(18)
From The Examiner (19 January 1817)
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
1071(2)
Journal-Letter from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock, 22 July to 2 August 1816 (extract)
1073(2)
From History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland by Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley (1817)
Mont Blanc. Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni
1075(4)
From The Examiner (11 January 1818)
Ozymandias
1079(1)
On Love
1080(1)
From Rosalind and Helen (1819)
Lines written among the Euganean Hills, October 1818
1081(9)
From Posthumous Poems (1824)
Stanzas written in Dejection, near Naples
1090(1)
Prometheus Unbound (1820)
Preface
1091(4)
Dramatis Personae
1095(1)
Act I
1095(23)
Act II
1118(18)
Act III
1136(13)
Act IV
1149(15)
The Mask of Anarchy Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester
1164(11)
From Prometheus Unbound (1820)
Ode to the West Wind
1175(2)
From Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments (1840)
On Life
1177(3)
England in 1819
1180(1)
'Lift not the painted veil'
1181(1)
From Prometheus Unbound (1820)
To a Skylark
1181(3)
A Defence of Poetry; or, Remarks Suggested by an Essay Entitled
`The Four Ages of Poetry' (extracts)
1184(15)
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats (1821)
1199(18)
From Posthumous Poems (1824)
Music, when soft voices die
1217(1)
When passion's trance is overpast
1218(1)
To Edward Williams ('The serpent is shut out from Paradise')
1218(2)
With a Guitar, to Jane
1220(3)
John Clare (1793--1864)
1223(18)
From The London Magazine (1822)
To Elia
1224(1)
Sonnet
1224(1)
From The Shepherd's Calendar (1827)
January (A Cottage Evening) (extract)
1225(1)
June (extract)
1226(1)
To the Snipe
1227(3)
The Flitting
1230(5)
The Badger
1235(2)
A Vision
1237(1)
'I am'
1237(1)
An Invite to Eternity
1238(1)
Little Trotty Wagtail
1239(1)
Silent Love
1239(1)
['O could I be as I have been']
1240(1)
Felicia Dorothea Hemans (nee Browne) (1793--1835)
1241(82)
From Poems (1808)
Written on the Sea-Shore
1247(1)
From Welsh Melodies (1822)
The Rock of Cader Idris
1247(1)
From The Works of Mrs Hemans (1839)
Manuscript fragments in prose
1248(1)
From Records of Woman: With Other Poems (1828)
Records of Woman (complete sequence)
1249(59)
Dedication
1250(1)
Arabella Stuart
1250(7)
The Bride of the Greek Isle
1257(5)
The Switzer's Wife
1262(3)
Properzia Rossi
1265(4)
Gertrude, or Fidelity till Death
1269(2)
Imelda
1271(3)
Edith, a Tale of the Woods
1274(5)
The Indian City
1279(5)
The Peasant Girl of the Rhone
1284(2)
Indian Woman's Death Song
1286(2)
Joan of Arc, in Rheims
1288(3)
Pauline
1291(2)
Juana
1293(2)
The American Forest Girl
1295(2)
Costanza
1297(3)
Madeline, a Domestic Tale
1300(2)
The Queen of Prussia's Tomb
1302(2)
The Memorial Pillar
1304(2)
The Grave of a Poetess
1306(2)
Miscellaneous Pieces (1828)
The Homes of England
1308(1)
The Sicilian Captive
1309(3)
To Wordsworth
1312(1)
The Spirit's Mysteries
1312(2)
The Graves of a Household
1314(1)
From Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems (1830)
The Land of Dreams
1315(1)
Nature's Farewell
1316(2)
Second Sight
1318(1)
From The Works of Mrs Hemans (1839)
Despondency and Aspiration
1319(4)
From The New Monthly Magazine (1835)
Thoughts During Sickness: II. Sickness Like Night
1323(1)
John Gibson Lockhart (1794--1854)
1323(9)
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (August 1818)
The Cockney School of Poetry No. IV (extracts)
1327(5)
John Keats (1795--1821)
1332(102)
From Poems (1817)
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
1342(1)
Addressed to Haydon
1343(1)
On the Grasshopper and the Cricket
1344(1)
From Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1818) (extracts)
['A thing of beauty is a joy for ever']
1344(1)
[Hymn to Pan]
1345(2)
[The Pleasure Thermometer]
1347(2)
Letter from John Keats to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817 (extract)
1349(1)
Letter from John Keats to George and Tom Keats, 21 December 1817 (extract)
1350(1)
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
1351(1)
Sonnet: `When I have fears that I may cease to be'
1351(1)
Letter from John Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 February 1818 (extract)
1352(1)
Letter from John Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 May 1818 (extract)
1353(1)
From Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820) Hyperion: A Fragment
1354(21)
Letter from John Keats to Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 1818
1375(1)
From Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820)
The Eve of St Agnes
1376(12)
Journal-Letter from John Keats to George and Georgiana Keats, 14 February-3 May 1819 (extracts)
1388(2)
La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad
1390(3)
From Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820)
Ode to Psyche
1393(2)
Ode to a Nightingale
1395(2)
Ode on a Grecian Urn
1397(3)
Ode on Melancholy
1400(1)
Ode on Indolence
1401(2)
From Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820)
Lamia
1403(16)
To Autumn
1419(1)
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream
1420(13)
Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art
1433(1)
[This living hand, now warm and capable]
1433(1)
Hartley Coleridge (1796--1849)
1434(1)
From Poems (1833)
Sonnet IX ('Long time a child, and still a child')
1434(1)
From Essays and Marginalia (1851)
Sonnet: `When I review the course that I have run'
1435(1)
To Wordsworth
1435(1)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (nee Godwin) (1797--1851)
1435(7)
From Journals
1437(1)
28 May 1817
1437(1)
15 May 1824
1437(1)
On Reading Wordsworth's Lines on Peele Castle
1438(1)
A Dirge
1439(1)
[Oh listen while I sing to thee]
1439(1)
From The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ed. Mary Shelley (1839)
Note on the `Prometheus Unbound' (extracts)
1440(2)
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802--1838)
1442(20)
From The Improvisatrice and Other Poems (1824)
The Improvisatrice: Introduction
1448(1)
[Sappho's Song]
1449(1)
From New Monthly Magazine (1835)
Stanzas on the Death of Mrs Hemans
1450(3)
From Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book (1838)
Felicia Hemans
1453(2)
From The Works of L. E. Landon (1838)
Scenes in London: Piccadilly
1455(2)
The Princess Victoria
1457(1)
From The Zenana, and Minor Poems of L.E.L. (1839)
On Wordsworth's Cottage, near Grasmere Lake
1458(2)
From Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L. (1841)
The Poet's Lot
1460(1)
Death in the Flower
1461(1)
Experience Too Late
1461(1)
The Farewell
1461(1)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806--1861)
1462(6)
From The Globe and Traveller (30 June 1824)
Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron (composed shortly after 14 May 1824)
1463(1)
From New Monthly Magazine (1835)
Stanzas Addressed to Miss Landon, and suggested by her `Stanzas on the Death of Mrs Hemans'
1464(1)
From The Athenaeum (26 January 1839)
L.E.L.'s Last Question
1465(2)
From The Athenaeum (29 October 1842)
Sonnet on Mr Haydon's Portrait of Mr Wordsworth
1467(1)
Index of first lines 1468(4)
Index to headnotes and notes 1472

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