Easily adaptable as both an anthology and an insightful guide to reading and understanding Romantic Poetry, this text discusses the important elements in the works from poets such as Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Barbauld, Byron, Shelley, Hemans, Keats and Landon. Easily adaptable as both an anthology and an insightful guide to reading and understanding Romantic Poetry, this text discusses the important elements in the works from poets such as Smith, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey, Barbauld, Byron, Shelley, Hemans, Keats and Landon. Selected Contents by Theme viii List of Plates xv Note on Texts and Editorial Method xvi Chronology of Events and Poetic Landmarks xvii Introduction: Romantic Doubleness xxi Acknowledgements xxx Anna Laetitia Barbauld, n Aikin (1743-1825) 1 The Rights of Woman 3 Inscription for an Ice-House 4 To Mr. S.T. Coleridge 6 Charlotte Smith, nee Turner (1749-1806) 9 Sonnet I ['The partial Muse, has from my earliest hours '] 11 Sonnet VII: On the departure of the nightingale 12 Sonnet XII: Written on the sea shore. October, 1784 13 Sonnet XXX: To the River Arun 14 Sonnet XXXII: To Melancholy 15 Sonnet XXXIX: To Night 16 Sonnet XLIV: Written in the church-yard at Middleton in Sussex 17 William Blake (1757-1827) 19 from Songs of Innocence and of Experience 20 (from Innocence) 21 Introduction 21 The Ecchoing Green 22 The Lamb 24 The Little Black Boy 25 The Chimney Sweeper 27 Holy Thursday 28 Nurse's Song 29 (from Experience) 30 Introduction 30 The Clod and the Pebble 31 Holy Thursday 32 The Sick Rose 33 The Fly 34 The Tyger 34 Ah! Sun flower 36 London 37 A Poison Tree 39 Visions of the Daughters of Albion 40 The First Book of Urizen 50 The Mental Traveller 68 The Crystal Cabinet 71 William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 73 Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed 75 Simon Lee, The Old Huntsman, With an incident in which he was concerned 76 Anecdote fir Fathers, Shewing how the practice of Lying may be taught 79 Lines written in early Spring 81 The Thorn 82 The Last of the Flock 88 The Idiot Boy 91 Expostulation and Reply 102 The Tables Turned; An Evening Scene, on the same subject 103 Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798 105 The Ruined Cottage 110 Strange fits of passion I have known 121 Song: 'She dwelt among th'untrodden ways' 122 A slumber did my spirit seal 123 The Two April Mornings 124 The Fountain, A Conversation 126 Nutting 128 Michael, A Pastoral Poem 129 The Prelude, 1805, Book 1 140 Resolution and Independence 156 The world is too much with us 160 Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803 161 Ode (from 1815 entitled 'Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood') 162 The Solitary Reaper 169 Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peek Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont 170 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 173 The Eolian Harp. Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire 175 Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement 177 This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison 180 Kubla Khan 183 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 187 Christabel 205 Frost at Midnight 221 France: An Ode 224 The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, April, 1798 228 The Pains of Sleep 232 Dejection: An Ode 234 George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) 240 Stanzas to [Augusta] 243 [Epistle to Augusta] 246 Stanzas to the Po 251 Don Juan 254 Dedication 257 Canto I 263 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 316 Alastor; Or, The Spirit of Solitude 318 Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 338 Mont Blanc. Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni 342 Prometheus Unbound, Act I 348 Ode to the West Wind 376 Adonais, An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of 'Endymion', 'Hyperion' Etc. 381 Felicia Hemans, n Browne (1793-1835) 400 Properzia Rossi 401 The Homes of England 405 The Spirit's Mysteries 407 The Graves of a Household 409 The Image in Lava 410 Casabianca 412 The Lost Pleiad 413 The Mirror in the Deserted Hall 415 John Keats (1795-1821) 417 On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 420 The Eve of St Agnes 421 La Belle Dame Sans Merci 436 Ode to Psyche 439 If by dull rhymes our english must be chain'd 442 Ode to a Nightingale 443 Ode on a Grecian Urn 448 Ode on Melancholy 451 Ode on Indolence 453 To Autumn 456 Bright star, would I mere stedlast as thou art 458 Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L.E.L.) (1802-38) 459 Lines Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love-Letter 460 A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk. By Stemardson 461 Lines of Life 462 Felicia Hemans 465 Index of Titles and First Lines 469