BRITISH LITERATURE: 1780-1830 (Harcourt, Brace, 1996)
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put on its own page separate from the main Romantic Literature 1995: page.HISTORICAL CONTEXTS: I. French Revolution and Rights of Man * II. Rights of Woman * III.
Slavery, the Slave Trade, and Abolition * IV. Society and Political Economy * V. Science and Nature *
VI. Aesthetic Theory and Literary Criticism
AUTHORS:
Barbauld * Equiano *
More * Smith *
Yearsley * Blake *
Robinson * Burns *
Wollstonecraft * Baillie * Williams *
Thelwall * Edgeworth *
Opie * W. Wordsworth *
D. Wordsworth * Scott *
Coleridge * Austen *
C. Lamb * Owenson *
Aikin * Taylor *
De Quincey * Prince *
Byron * P. Shelley *
Hemans *
Clare * Keats *
M. Shelley * Landon
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
CHRONOLOGY 1780 - 1830 Front Cover]
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTSGENERAL INTRCDUCTION
HISTORICAL CONTEXTS
I. THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND RIGHTS OF MAN
Section Introduction
Edmund Burke, from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
Mary Wollstonecraft, from A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
Thomas Paine, from The Rights of Man (1791)
Thomas Babington Macaulay, from Parliamentary speeches in favor
of the Great Reform Bill (1831)
II. RIGHTS OF WOMAN
Section Introduction
Catherine Sawbridge Macaulay Graham, from Letters on Education (1790)
Mary Hays, from Letters and Essays (1793)
from Appea1 to the Men of Great Britain in Behalf of Women (1798)
Richard Polwhele, from The Unsex'd Females (1798)
Priscilla Wakef ield, from Reflection on the Present Condition of the Female
Sex with Suggestions for its Improvement (1798)
Mary Lamb, from British Ladies Magazine (1815): "On Needle-Work"
III. SLAVERY, THE SLAVE-TRADE, AND ABOLITION
Section Introduction
From The Mansfield Judgment, 22 June 1772
Ottobah Cugoano, from Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and
Wicked Traffic in Slavery (1787)
William Cowper, "The Negro's Complaint" (1788)
"Pity for Poor Africans" (1788)
Thomas Bellamy, The Benevolent Planters (1789)
Robert Southey, from Poems Concerning the Slave Trade (1798)
"The Sailor, who had served in the Slave Trade"
William Wilberforce, from Letter on the Abolition of the Slave-Trade (1807)
Thomas Clarkson, from History of the Rise, Progress and
Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African slave-Trade,
bv the British Parliament (1808)
Amelia Opie, "The Black Man's Lament, or How to Make Sugar" (1826)
IV. SOCIETY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY
Section Introduction
William Godwin, from Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its
Influence on Modern Morals and Happiness. 3rd ed. (1798; 1793)
Thomas Malthus, from First Essay on Population (1798)
Jane H. Marcet, from Conversations on Political Economy (1821; 1816)
William Cobbett, Letter II from Poor Man's Friend: or Useful Information
and Advice for the Working Classes (1826)
V. SCIENCE AND NATURE
Section Introduction
Erasmus Darwin, from The Loves of the Plants (1789)
David Hart1ey, from Obaervations on Man (1791; 1749)
Francis Burney, (A Mastectomy) from Letter to Esther Burney (1811)
Mary Shelley, Introduction to Frankenstein, 3rd ed. (1831)
Sir Charles Lyell, from Principles of Geology (1830-33)
VI. AESTHETIC THEORY AND LITERARY CRITICISM
Section Introduction
NEOCLASSICISM
Johann Winckelmann, from The History of Ancient Art (1764)
Sir Joshua Reynolds, from Discourses on Art (1769-1790)
THE SUBLIME, THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE PICTURESQUE
Edmund Burke, from A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our
Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (5th ed., 1767; 1757)
William Gilpin, from Three Essay: On Picturesque Beauty: On
Picturesque Travel; and on Sketching Landscape (1792)
SENSIBILITY
Adam Smith, from The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
Mary Wollstonecraft, from Mary, A Fiction (1788)
from Maria, or The Wrongs of Woman (1798)
ROMANTICISM
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from Lectures on Belle Lettres (1812-13)
from The Statesman's Manual (1816)
William Hazlitt, from Lectures on the English Poets (1818): from "On
Poetry in General"
from Table Talk, or Original Essays on Men and Manners (1821-22):
from "On Genius and Common Sense: The Same Subject Continued
LITERARY CRITICISM
Clara Reeve, from On the Progress of Romance (1785)
Francis Jeffrey, from Review of Wordsworth's Excursion (1814)
John Gibson Lockhart, from "The Cockney School of Poetry" (1818)
* * * * * * * * * * * * *
AUTHORS
ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD
(1743-1825)
Introduction
From Poems (1773)
"An Inventory of the Furniture of Dr. Priestley's 5tudy"
"On a Lady's Writing"
"To a Lady, with some painted Flowers"
"A Summer Evening's Meditation"
Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill
for abolishing the Slave Trade (1791)
From Sins of Government. Sins of the Nation (1793)
From The British Novelists (1810)
from "On the Origin and Progress of Novel Writing"
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812)
From Monthly Review, November 1822: A Thought on Death"
Posthumous Publications:
From Works of Anna Letitia Barbauld, ed. Lucy Aikin (1825)
"To Mr. Barbauld, with a Map of the Land of Matrimony"
[c. 1774]
"The Rights of Woman" [1793)
"To a Little Invisible Being who is Expected Soon to become
Visible" [1795]
"Washing-Day" [1797)
"To Mr. S. T. Coleridge" [1797]
"The First Fire" [1815]
"On the Death of the Princess Charlotte" [1817]
OLAUDAH EQUIANO
(c. 1745-1797)
Introduction
From The Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, The African
(1789)
HANNAH MORE
(1745-1833)
Introduction
From Sensibility: A Poetical Epistle to the Hon. Mrs. Boscawen (1782)
Slavery, A Poem (1788)
Village Politics (1792)
From Cheap Repository Tracts (1795-98)
"Patient Joe; or, the Newcastle Collier"
"The Riot; or, Half a loaf is better than no bread"
"The Gin Shop; or, a Peep into Prison"
From Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799)
From Letter to John Bowdler, 1799 (only date given)
From Letters to William Wilberforce, 1801 (only date given)
CHARLOTTE TURNER SMITH
(1749-1806)
Introduction
From Eleaiac Sonnets and Other Poems (1784-1797)
I - "The partial Muse has from my earliest hour"
XXVII - "Sighing I see yon little troop at play"
XXXV - "To fortitude"
XLIII - "The unhappy exile, whom his fates confine"
XLIV - "Written in the church-yard at Middleton in Sussex"
XLVII - "To fancy"
LVII - "To dependence"
LIX - "Written September 179l, during a remarkable thunder
storm, in which the moon was perfectly clear, while the
tempest gathered in various directions near the earth"
LXV - "To Dr. Parry of Bath, with some botanic drawings
which had been made some years"
LXX - "On being cautioned against walking on an headland
overlooking the sea, because it was frequented by a lunatic"
LXXIV - "The winter night"
LXXXIV - "To the Muse"
XCI - "Reflections on some drawings of plants"
"Thirty-eight - Addressed to Mrs. H----y"
The Emigrants (1793)
Posthumous Publications:
From Beachy Head. Fables, and Other Poems (1807)
"Beachy Head" [1806]
"The truant dove - from Pilpay" [1806]
ANN YEARSLEY
(1752-1806)
Introduction
From Poems on Several Occasions (1785)
from "To Mr. R---, on his Benevolent Scheme for rescuing
Poor Children from Vice and Misery, by promoting
Sunday Schools"
"To the Same [Stella]; on her Accusing the Author of
Flattery, and of Ascribing to the Creature that Praise
which is due only to the Creator"
A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade (1786)
From The Rural Lyre (1796)
"To Mira, on the Care of her Infant"
"The Indifferent Shepherdess to Colin"
WILLIAM BLAKE
(1757-1827)
Introduction
THERE is NO Natural Religion, a (1788)
THERE is NO Natural Religion, b (1788)
ALL RELIGIONS are ONE (1788)
The Book of Thel (1789)
From Songs of Innocence (1789)
"Introduction"
"The Shepherd"
"The Ecchoing Green"
"The Lamb"
"The Little Black Boy"
"The Blossom"
"The Chimney Sweeper"
"The Little Boy Lost"
"The Little Boy Found"
"The Divine Image"
"Holy Thursday"
"Nurse's Song"
"Infant Joy"
"A Dream"
"On Another's Sorrow
"The Little Girl Lost"
"The Little Girl Found"
"The Voice of the Ancient Bard"
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1793)
Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)
From Songs of Experience (1794)
"Introduction"
"Earth's Answer"
"The Clod & the Pebble"
"Holy Thursday"
"The Chimney Sweeper"
"Nurses Song"
"The Sick Rose"
"The Fly"
"The Angel"
"The Tyger"
"My Pretty Rose Tree"
"The Garden of Love"
"The Little Vagabcnd"
"London"
"The Human Abstract"
"Infant Sorrow"
"A Poison Tree"
"A Little Boy Lost"
"A Little Girl Lost"
"The School Boy"
"To Tirzah" (1803)
The [First] Book of Urizen (1794)
Letters
To Dr. Trusler (23 August 1799)
To Thomas Butts (22 November 1802)
From A Vision of The Last Judgment (1810)
Posthumous Publications:
From The Pickering Manuscript (1863)
"Auguries of Innocence" [1803]
MARY ROBINSON
(1758-1800)
Introduction
From Poems (1791)
"Canzonet" (by "Laura Maria")
"Ode to Beauty"
From Sappho and P1~aon (179~)
Sonnet VII - "Come, Reason, come!"
Sonnet XI - "O Reason! vaunted sovereign of the mind"
From Lyrical Tales (1800)
"All Alone"
"The Poor Singing Dame"
"The Haunted Beach"
"Deborah's Parrot. A Village Tale"
"The Alien Boy"
Posthumous Publications:
From Memoirs of the Late Mrs. Robinson, written by Herself
(1801; composed 1799-1800)
From The Wild Wreath, ed. Maria Elizabeth Robinson (1804)
"The Wint'ry Day" [nd]
"A London Summer Morning1" [nd]
"The Poet's Garret" [nd]
From The Poetical Works (1806)
From "The Progress of Liberty," from Book First [nd]
"January, 1795" [1795]
"The Old Beggar" [nd]
"To the Poet Coleridge" [October, 1800]
ROBERT BURNS
(1759-1796)
Introduction
Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786, 1787, 1793)
"John Barleycorn. A Ballad" (1786)
"To A Mouse, On turning her up in her Nest, with the
Plough" (1786)
"Address to the Unco Guid, or the Rigidly Righteous" (1787)
Letters
From To Miss Helen Craik [9 August 1790]
From To Robert Graham [5 January 1793]
From The Morning Chronicle (8 May 1794)
"Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn---" ("Scots Wha Hae")
From Glasgow Magazine (August 1795)
"Song---For a' that and a' that" ["Is there for honest
Poverty"]
The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1803)
"Auld lang syne" (1796)
"Such a parcel of rogues in a nation---" (1792)
"A red, red Rose" (1796)
Merry Muses of Caldonia; A Collection of Favorite Scots Songs (1799/1800)
"The Fornicator. A New Song--"
"Green grow the Rashes. A Fragment"
"Why should na poor folk mowe"
BURNS GLOSSARY
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT
(1759-1797)
Introduction
From Thoughts on the Education of Daughters (1786)
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
Letters
To Joseph Johnson [26 December 1792]
To Joseph Johnson [15 February 1793]
From Letters to Gilbert Imlay [August 1793 - November 1796]
From A Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of
the French Revolution (1794)
From Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway
and Denmark (1796)
From Letters to William Godwin [August 1796 - August 1797]
JOANNA BAILLIE
(1762-1851)
Introduction
From Fugitive Verses (1790)
"A Winter's Day"
"Address to the Muses"
"Thunder"
From Introductory Discourse to A Series of Plays: In Which It
is Attempted to Delineate the Stronger Passions of the
Mind, Each Passion Being the Subject of a Tragedy and a
Comedy (1798)
Count Basil (1798)
"Lines on the Death of Sir Walter Scott" (1832)
From Fugitive Verses (2nd enlarged edition, 1840)
"Lines for A Friend's Album"
"To Mrs. Siddons"
Posthumous Publications:
From The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie (1851)
"Lines to Agnes Baillie on her Birthday" [18491
HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS
(1762-1827)
Introduction
From Peru (1784)
Canto 2
from Canto 6
From Poems (1786)
"To Sensibility"
A Farewell, for Two Years. to England (1789)
From Letters written from France (1790-1792
"To Dr. Moore, in Answer to a Poetical Epistle written by
Him in Wales" (1792)
From Letters from France (1793-1796
From A Narrative of the Events which have taken place in FRANCE;
with an account of the Present State of Society and Public
Opinion (1816)
From Poems on Various Subjects (1823)
"To James Forbes, Esq., on his bringing me flowers from tne
Vaucluse"
JOHN THELWALL
(1764-1834)
Introduction
From Poems chief ly written in retirement (1801)
from Prefatory Memoir
"To the Infant Hampden"
"Maria. A Fragment"
MARIA EDGEWORTH
(1768-1849)
Introduction
From Letters from Literary Ladies (1795)
From Belinda (1801), Chapter 17: "The Rights of Woman"
The Grateful Negro (1802)
AMELIA OPIE
(1769-1853)
Introduction
From Poems (1802)
"Consumption"
"The Orphan Boy"
"Lines Respectfully Inscribed to the Society for the Relief
of Persons Imprisoned for Small Debts"
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
(1770-1850)
Introduction
From European Magazine (1787)
"Sonnet on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale
of Distress"
From Lyrical Ballads, with A Few Other Poems (1798, 1800)
"Lines written at a small distance from my House" (1798)
"Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman" (1798)
"We are seven" (1798)
"Lines written in early spring" (1798)
"The Thorn" (1798)
"Expostulation and Reply" (1798)
"The Tables turned" (1798)
"Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey" (1798)
From Preface (1800)
"There was a Boy" (1800)
"Strange fits of passion I have known" (1800)
"Song" [She dwelt among th' untrodden ways] (1800)
"A slumber did my spirit seal" (1800)
"Lucy Gray" (1800)
"The two April Mornings" (1300)
"The Fountain, a conversation" (1800)
"Nutting" (1800)
"Three years she grew in sun and shower" (1800)
"Michael, a Pastoral" (1800)
From letter to Charles James Fox, M.P. [14 January 1801]
From Poems in Two Volumes (1807)
Volume One
THE ORCHARD PATHWAY
"She was a Phantom of delight"
"I travell'd among unknown Men"
POEMS COMPOSED DURING A TOUR, CHIEFLY ON FOOT
"Resolution and Independence"
SONNETS
Prefatory Sonnet ["Nuns fret not"]
PART THE FIRST. MISCELLANEOUS SONNETS
"With Ships the sea was sprinkled far and nigh"
"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803"
"The world is too much with us; late and soon"
"It is a beauteous Evening, calm and free"
PART THE SECOND. SONNETS DEDICATED TO LIBERTY
"Composed by the sea-side, near Calais, August, 1802"
"Calals, August, 18a2"
"I griev'd for Buonaparte, with a vain"
"On the extinction of the Venetian Republic"
"To Toussaint L'Ouverture"
"September 1st, 1802"
"Written in London, September, 1802"
"London, 1802"
"It is not to be thought of that the Flood"
Volume Two
POEMS WRITTEN DURING A TOUR IN SCOTLAND
"The Solitary Reaper"
"Stepping Westward"
MOODS OF MY OWN MIND
"To a Butterfly
"My heart leaps up when I behold"
"I wandered lonely as a Cloud"
"The Sparrow's Nest"
"To the Cuckoo"
"To a Butterfly"
THE BLIND HIGHLAND BOY; WITH OTHER POEMS
"Elegiac Stanzas"
"Ode" [There was a time)
Letters:
from To Mary Wordsworth [11 August 1810]
from To Mary Wordsworth [3-4 June 1812]
From The Excursion (1814)
Dedication
from Preface and Prospectus to The Recluse
Book First, The Wanderer
From Poems (1815-1849/50)
"A Night-Piece" (1815)
"Surprised by joys--impatient as the Wind" (1815)
"Extempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg" (1836-37)
"So fair, so sweet, withal so sensitive" (1845)
"On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway" (1845)
Posthumous Publications:
From The Prelude: or Growth of a Poet's Mind: 1798-99 (1973);
1805 (1926); 1850 (1850)
The Two-Part Prelude (1798-99)
from Book V (1805) [Books]
from Book VI (1805) [Alpine Tour and Crossing]
from Book VII (1805) [Experiences in London]
from Book VIII (1805) [Helvellyn Fair]
from Book IX (1805) [Residence in Revolutionary France]
from Book X (1805) [Residence in France, con't)
from Book XIII (1805) and Book XIV (1850) [Vision on Mt
Snowdon and Conclusion]
From Home at Grasmere (comp. 1801; pub. 1888)
DOROTHY WORDSWORTH
(1771-1855)
Introduction
In William Wordsworth, Poems (1842)
"Floating Island at Hawkshead"
Posthumous Publications:
From The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (1941)
from The Alfoxden Journal [1798]
from The Grasmere Journals [1800-1803]
From "Appendix One: The Collected Poems of Dorothy Wordsworth,"
in Dorothy Wordsworth and Romanticism (1987)
"Irregular Verses" [1829]
"Thoughts on my sick-bed" [1832]
WALTER SCOTT
(1771-1832)
Introduction
From The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802-03)
"Lord Randal
From The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
from Canto VI
From Marmion (1808)
from Canto V
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
(1772-1834)
Introduction
Letters
From to Robert Southey [18 September 1794]
From Conciones ad Populum; or Addresses to the People (1795)
from "Introductory Address"
From Bristol Lecture 6, June 1796 [Politics and Christianity]
From Poems on Various Subjects (1796)
"Effusion XXXV"
From The Watchman (1796)
from "Remonstrance to the French Legislators" (27 April)
From Monthly Magazine (1796)
"Reflections on Having Left A Place of Retirement"
From Fears in solitude Written in 1798 during the Alarm of an
Invasion (1798)
"Fears in solitude"
"Frost at Midnight"
From Lyrical Ballads (1798)
Rime of the Ancyent Marinere
"The Nightingale"
From The Morning Post (1799)
from "On the French Constitution, IV" (3l December)
From Annual Anthology (1800)
"This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison"
Letters
from To Thomas Poole [3l March 1800]
from To William Godwin [25 March 1801]
From The Morning Post (1802)
Dejection. An Ode Written April 4, 1802
From The Morning Post (1802)
from "Once a Jacobin Always A Jacobin"
From The Friend (1809)
from No. 5-6 [Genius and Novelty]
from No. 8 [Luther and Rousseau]
Christabel; Kubla Khan A Vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816)
Christabel
"Kubla Khan"
"The Pains of Sleep"
From The Statesman's Manual or the Bible the Best Guide to
Political Skill and Foresight (1816)
[Philosophy, Revolution, and the Bible]
[Bible and Universal Truths]
[Bible and Imagination]
From Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems (1817)
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
"To a Gentleman [William Wordsworth] on the night after his
recitation of a Poem on the growth of an individual mind"
"The Visionary Hope1'
From Biographia Literaria: or, Biographical Sketches of My
Literary Life and Opinions (1817)
from Chapter 1 [The MotIves of the Present Work]
from Chapter 4 [Lyrical Ballads and Preface; Wordsworth]
from Chapter 13 [Imagination]
from Chapter 14 [Lyrical Ballads and Poetic Controversy]
from Chapter 17 [Poetic Language]
Lectures (1818)
from Lecture 11 [On Education]
from Lecture 13 [On Poesy or Art]
from Lecture 14 [On Style and Politics]
From Poetical Works (1828)
"The Eolian Harp"
"Work Without Hope, Lines Composed 21st February 1825"
"Constancy to an Ideal Object"
From On the Constitution of Church and State According to the
Idea of Each (1829; 2nd ed. 1830)
from Chapter I [The British Constitution as Idea]
from Chapter V [The Clerisy]
"Reason"
From Poetical Works (1834)
"Phantom or Fact"
"Self-Knowledge"
"Ne Plus Ultra
"Epitaph"
JANE AUSTEN
(1775-1817)
Introduction
From letter to Cassandra Austen [27 October 1798]
"To the Memory of Mrs. Lefroy" (1808)
Letters
from To Anna Austen [9 September 1814]
from To J. Edward Austen [16 December 1816]
Posthumous Publications:
Lady Susan (1871; composed 1794-95)
CHARLES LAMB
(1775-1834)
From Blank Verse (1798)
"Written on Christmas Day, 1797"
"The Old Familiar Faces"
From Elia (1823)
"Dream Children: A Reverie"
From The Last Essays of Ella (1833, 1835)
"The Superannuated Man"
SYDNEY OWENSON, Lady MORGAN
(1776-1859)
Introduction
From The Wild Irish Girl (1806)
From The Lay of an Irish Harp (1807)
"The Irish Harp"
"To Signor Alphonso Pilligrini"
"The Swan Quill"
From France (1817)
From France in 1829 (1830)
LUCY AIKIN
(1781-1864)
Introduction
Epistles on Women, exemplifying Their Character and Condition in
Various Ages and Nations (1810)
JANE TAYLOR
(1783-1824)
Introduction
From Rhymes for the Nursery (1806)
"The Star"
From Essays in Rhyme, on Morals and Manners (1816)
from "Prejudice"
"Accomplishment"
"A Pair"
"Recreation"
Posthumous Publications:
From Poetical Remains (1832)
"To Mme. de Stael" [1822]
THOMAS DE QUINCEY
(1785-1859)
Introduction
From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)
from "Preliminary Confessions"
from Part II and "The Pleasures of Opium"
from "Introduction to the Pains of Opium"
from "The Pains of Opium"
From London Magazine (1823)
"Notes from the Pocket-Book of a Late Opium-Eater" ["On the
Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth")
MARY PRINCE
(c. 1788-after 1833)
Introduction
From The History of Mary Prince A West Indian Slave (1831)
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON
(1788-1824)
Parliamentary Speeches in the House of Lords
from Debate on the Frame Work Bill, February 27, 1812
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. A Romaunt (1812)
from Preface
from Canto I
from Canto II
"Maid of Athens"
Ode to Napolean Buonaparte (1814)
Letter to Lady Byron [8 February 1816]
From Poems 1816
"To -
"When we two parted"
"Fare Thee Well"
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third (1816)
From The Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems (1816)
"Sonnet on Chi1lon"
"Stanas to
"Darkness"
"Prometheus"
Letters:
To Augusta Leigh [8 September 1816]
[To Augusta Leigh] Alpine Journal [18-29 September 1816]
Manfred. A Dramatic Poem (1817)
Letters:
To Thomas Moore [28 February 1817]
[So we'll Go No More a Roving]
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto the Fourth (1818)
Letter To John Murray [6 April 1819]
Don Juan [I-II] (1819)
Canto I
from Canto II
Letters:
To Augusta Leigh [26 July 1819]
To Douglas Kinnaird [26 October 1819]
From Don Juan [III-V] (1821)
from Canto III
from Canto IV
From "Detached Thoughts" (1821-1822)
Nos. 79, 80, 83, 91, 95
From Don Juan [VI-XIV] (1823)
from Canto IX
from Canto XIII
From Don Juan [XV-XVI] (1824)
from Canto XV
Canto XVI
Posthumous Publications:
From Mornina Chronicle (1824)
"On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year" [1824]
From The Works of Lord Byron. with his letters and journals. and
his life by Thomas Moore (1832-33)
"Dedication" [to Don Juan] [1819]
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
(1792-1822)
Introduction
From A1astor; or, The Spirit of Solitude: and Other Poems (1816)
Alastor; or, The Spirit of solitude
"To Wordsworth"
"Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte"
From History of a Six Weeks' Tour (1817)
"Mont Blanc"
From The Examiner (1817-18)
"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (1817)
"Ozymandias" (1818)
The Cenci. A Tragedy, In Five Acts (1820)
From Prometheus Unbound A Lyrical Drama In Four Acts With Other
Poems (1820)
"Ode to the West Wind"
Prometheus Unbound
"To A Skylark"
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endyrnion.
Hyperion. Etc. (1821)
Posthumous Publications:
From Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1824)
"Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples" [1818]
from Julian and Maddalo [1819]
"To---" ["Music, when soft voices die"] [1821]
Lines: "When the lamp is shattered" [1822]
The Triumph of Life [1822]
From Keepsake for 1829
"On Love" [1818]
From The Athenaeum (1832)
"Similes for Two Political Characters of 1819" [1819]
"With a Guitar, to Jane" [1822]
To Jane: "The Keen Stars Were Twinkling" [1822]
From The Poetica1 Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (1839)
"Sonnet: England in 1819" [1819]
"Song to the Men of England" [1819]
From Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments
(1840)
From A Defence of Poetry [1821]
FELICIA DOROTHEA BROWNE HEMANS
(1793-1835)
From Tales, and Historic Scenes in Verse (1819)
"The Widow of Crescentius"
"The Wife of Asdruba1"
The Siege of Valencia; A Drainatic Poem (1823)
From The League of the ALPS . . . and Other Poems (Boston, 1826)
"The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers"
"The Graves of a Household"
"To The Poet Wordsworth"
"Casabianca"
"Evening Prayer at a Girl's School"
Letters
from To Maria Jane Jewsbury [1826]
from To an unknown female correspondent [c. 1828]
From Records of Woman: with Other Poems (1828)
"The Bride of the Greek Isle"
"Properzia Rossi1"
"The Indian City"
"Indian Woman's Death Song"
"Joan of Arc, in Rheims"
"Madeleine: A Domestic Tale"
"The Memorial Pillar"
"The Homes of England"
"The Image in Lava"
From Journal of Felicia Hemans (c. 1828)
From Songs of the Affections (1830)
"A Spirit's Return"
"The Two Homes"
"Corinne at the Capitol"
Posthumous Publications:
From The Poetical Works of Mrs. Hemans (Philadelphia, 1836)
"Woman and Fame" [1833]
JOHN CLARE
(1793-1864)
Introduction
From The Rural Muse (1835)
"Nutting"
"The Morning Wind"
"The Nightingale's Nest"
Posthumous PublicationS:
From The Life of John Clare (1865)
"I Am" [1842-64]
From Poems of John Clare (1908)
"Emmonsails Heath in Winter" [1824-32]
From Poems of John C1are (1935)
"Winter Fields" [1832-35]
"Cottage Fears" [1832-35
"The Moors (or "Enclosure") [1821-24]
JOHN KEATS
(1795-1821)
Introduction
From Poems (1817)
"How many bards gild the lapses of time"
"On First Looking into Chapman'S Homer"
["Great spirits now on earth are sojourning"]
From S1eep and Poetry
From The Examiner (1817)
"On Seeing the Elgin Marbles"
Letters:
From To Benjamin Bailey [22 November 1817]
From To George and Tom Keats [21, 27 December 1817]
From To J.H. Reynolds [3 February 1818]
From To John Taylor [27 February 1818]
From To J.H. Reynolds [3 May 1818]
From To Benjamin Bailey [18, 22 July 1818]
From To C.W. Dilke [20, 21 September 1818]
From To Richard Woodhouse [27 October 1818]
From To the George Keatses [14, 24, October 1818]
From To the George Keatses [19 February; 19 March; 15, 16, 21 April 1819]
To Fanny Brawne [25 July 1819]
From To J.H. Reynolds [21 September 1819]
From To the George Keatses [17, 18, 24, September 1819]
From The Indicator (1820)
"La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad"
From Lamia. IsabelIa The Eve of St. Aanes and Other Poems (1820)
The Eve of St. Agnes
Hyperion: A Fragment
"Ode to Psyche"
"Ode to a Nightingale"
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
"Ode on Melancholy"
Lamia
"To Autumn"
Letters:
From To James Rice [14 February 1820]
To Percy Bysshe Shelley [16 August 1820]
Joseph Severn to John Taylor [6 March 1821]
Posthumous Publications:
From The Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal (1838)
"Bright star" [1819]
"On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again" [1818]
From Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats (1848)
"Ode on Indolence" [1819]
"When I have fears that I may cease to be" [1818]
From Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society (1857)
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream [1819]
From Poetical Works of John Keats (1898)
"This living hand, now warm and capable" [1819]
MARY SHELLEY
(1797-1851)
From Journals [March 6 - 20, 1815]
From History of Six Weeks' Tour (1817)
Letters:
from To Marianne Hunt [29 June 1819]
from To Maria Gisborne [15 August 1822]
From Journals [14-15 May 1824]
"Authors Introduction" to The Last Man (1826)
Letters:
To John Murray [19 January 1830]
from To Maria Gisborne [30 October 1834]
From Journals [2l October 1838]
From Rambles in Germany and Italy, in 1840, 1842, and 1843 (1843)
Posthumous Publications:
Mathilda (comp. 1819; pub'd 1959)
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
(1802-1838)
From The Improvisatrice (1824)
"Sappho's Song"
From The Troubadour (1825)
"The Proud Ladye"
From The Golden Violet, with Its Tales of Romance and Chivalry (1827)
"The Poet's Epilogue"
Erinna
"Love's Last Lesson"
From The Venetian Bracelet (1829)
The Lost Pleiad
"Revenge"
From Traits and Trials of Early Life (1836)
"The History of a Child"
Posthumous Publications:
From The Zenana (1839)
"Fe1icia Hemans" [1836]
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF AUTHORS, TITLES AND FIRST LINES
CHRONOLOGY [Back Cover]