This is a revised and enlarged edition of the most extensive and detailed critical reading of English Romantic poetry ever attempted in a single volume. It is both a valuable introduction to the Romantics and an influential work of literary criticism... Prometheus Rising: The Backgrounds of Romantic Poetry xiii Prologue 1(6) I WILLIAM BLAKE The Heritage of Sensibility 7(13) Collins' Ode on the Poetical Character 7(8) Poetical Sketches 15(5) The Individual Vision 20(13) The Concept of Beulah 20(11) The Giant Forms 31(2) The Contraries 33(16) Songs of Innocence and of Experience 33(16) Negations 49(15) The Book of Thel 49(4) Visions of the Daughters of Albion 53(3) The Crystal Cabinet 56(2) The Mental Traveller 58(6) Bible of Energy 64(7) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 64(7) Bible of Hell 71(9) The Book of Urizen 71(9) States of Being 80(17) The Four Zoas 80(17) The Recovery of Innocence 97(11) Milton 97(11) Blake's Apocalypse 108(16) Jerusalem 108(16) II WILLIAM WORDSWORTH The Great Marriage 124(7) The Recluse 124(4) Nutting 128(3) Myth of Memory 131(33) Tintern Abbey 131(9) The Prelude 140(24) Spots of Time 164(14) Resolution and Independence 164(6) Ode: Intimations of Immortality 170(8) Natural Man 178(6) The Old Cumberland Beggar 178(4) Michael 182(2) The Myth Denied 184(9) Peele Castle 184(3) Ode to Duty 187(1) Laodamia 188(5) The Frozen Spirit 193(7) The Excursion 193(3) Extempore Effusion 196(4) III SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE The Conversation Poems 200(6) The Eolian Harp 200(2) Frost at Midnight 202(3) The Nightingale 205(1) Natural Magic 206(14) The Ancient Mariner 206(6) Christabel 212(5) Kubla Khan 217(3) Wisdom and Dejection 220(12) France: An Ode 220(2) Dejection: An Ode 222(6) To William Wordsworth 228(4) Positive Negation 232(6) Limbo 232(3) NE Plus Ultra 235(3) IV GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON Promethean Man 238(17) Child Harold's Pilgrimage 238(7) Prometheus 245(3) Manfred 248(5) Cain 253(2) The Digressive Balance 255(17) Beppo 255(2) Don Juan 257(15) The Byronic Ethos 272(10) The Vision of Judgment 272(4) Stanzas to The PO 276(3) Last Poems 279(3) V PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Urbanity and Apocalypse 282(3) The Quest 285(5) Alastor 285(5) The Hidden Power 290(16) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 290(3) Mont Blanc 293(3) Ode to the West Wind 296(6) To A Skylark 302(4) Titan on the Rock 306(17) Prometheus Unbound 306(17) Dialectics of Vision 323(12) The Two Spirits: An Allegory 323(3) The Witch of Atlas 326(9) Darkening of the Quest 335(15) Epipsychidion 335(7) Adonais 342(8) Transmemberment of Song 350(13) Final Lyrics 350(2) The Triumph of Life 352(11) VI JOHN KEATS Gardens of the Moon 363(15) Sleep and Poetry 363(5) Endymion 368(10) Hymns of Eros 378(12) The Eve of St. Agnes 378(6) La Belle Dame Sans Merci 384(3) Lamia 387(3) Temples of the Sun 390(17) Hyperion 390(9) Ode to Psyche 399(8) Naturalistic Humanism 407(14) Ode to a Nightingale 407(6) Ode on Melancholy 413(3) Ode on a Grecian Urn 416(4) Ode on Indolence 420(1) Tragic Humanism 421(18) The Fall of Hyperion 421(11) To Autumn 432(3) Bright Star 435(4) VII BEDDOES, CLARE, DARLEY, AND OTHERS Thomas Lovell Beddoes 439(5) Dance of Death 439(5) John Clare 444(12) The Wordsworthian Shadow 444(12) George Darley and Others 456(5) The Strangling Tide 456(5) Epilogue: The Persistence of Romanticism 461(6) Chronological Table 467(4) Notes 471(2) Index 473