This new edition of the groundbreaking Romanticism: An Anthology is the only book of its kind to contain complete texts of a wide range of Romantic works, including Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Urizen; Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798); Wordsworth's Two-Part Prelude; early and revised versions of Coleridge's 'The Eolian Harp', 'This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison', 'Frost at Midnight', and 'The Ancient Mariner'; Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, Epipsychidion and Adonais; Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III and Don Juan Dedication and Cantos I and II; and Keats's Odes, the two Hyperions, Lamia, Isabella and The Eve of St Agnes. It also carries explanatory annotations and author headnotes. Updated to incorporate the latest scholarly findings, it remains the essential text on Romanticism. Don Juan Dedication and Cantos I and II; and Keats's Odes, the two Hyperions, Lamia, Isabella and The Eve of St Agnes. It also carries explanatory annotations and author headnotes. Updated to incorporate the latest scholarly findings, it remains the essential text on Romanticism. * Includes all texts from the third edition, with the addition of Keats's Isabella and Shelley's Epipsychidion, as well as a selection of the poems of Walter Scott * Includes a wider and deeper selection of texts by the Big Six male poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron and Shelley) than any competing volume * Includes a generous range of texts by female Romantic poets * All editorial materials, including annotations, author headnotes, and prefatory materials, have been revised for the new edition * The only book to contain complete texts, edited for this volume from manuscript and early printed sources by Wu, along with explanatory annotations and author headnotes * Contains everything teachers and students require for an in-depth survey of the principal writings to emerge from the British Romantic period * The most widely-used teaching anthology in the field in the UK * Companion website features a dynamic timeline detailing significant events of the romantic period and providing images, suggestions for further reading and useful links to other online resources: www.romanticismanthology.com Contains complete texts of a wide range of Romantic works, including Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Urizen; Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798); Wordsworth's Two-Part Prelude; early and revised versions of Coleridge's The Eolian Harp, and The Ancient Mariner. List of Illustrations xxviList of plates xxviiAbbreviationsIntroduction xxxEditor's Note on the Fourth EditionEditorial Principles xliiiAcknowledgements xlvRichard Price (1723-1791) 3From A Discourse on the Love of our Country (1789)[On Representation] 4[Prospects for Reform] 5Thomas Warton (1728-1790) 6From Poems (1777)Sonnet IX. To the River Lodon 7Edmund Burke (1729/30-1797) 7From A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)Obscurity 9From Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)[History will record...] 10[The age of chivalry is gone] 11[On Englishness] 13[Society is a Contract] 14William Cowper (1731-1800) 16From The Task (1785)[Crazy Kate] (Book I) 18[On Slavery] (Book II) 18[The Winter Evening] (Book IV) 20From Works (1835-7)Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce, or The Slave Trader in the Dumps 21Thomas Paine (1737-1809) 23From Common Sense (1776)Of the Origin and Design of Government in General 24From The Rights of Man Part I (1791)[Freedom of Posterity] 24[On Revolution] 25From The Rights of Man Part II (1792)[Republicanism] 26Anna Seward (1742-1809) 27Sonnet written from an Eastern Apartment in the Bishop's Palace at Lichfield 28From Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems (1796)To Time Past. Written Dec. 1772 28From Gentleman's Magazine (1786)Advice to Mrs Smith. A Sonnet 29From Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems (1796)Eyam 30Anna Laetitia Barbauld (née Aikin) (1743-1825) 31From Poems (1773)A Summer Evening's Meditation 35From Poems (1792)Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade 38From Works (1825)The Rights of Woman 41From The Monthly Magazine (1799)To Mr Coleridge 42Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem (1812) 44Hannah More (1745-1833) 52From 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 56Slavery: A Poem (1788) 66Cheap RepositoryThe Story of Sinful Sally. Told by Herself (1796) 73Charlotte Smith (née Turner) (1749-1806) 77Elegiac Sonnets: The Third Edition. With Twenty Additional Sonnets (1786) 83To William Hayley, Esq. 83Preface to the First Edition 84Preface to the Third Edition 84Sonnet I 84Sonnet II. Written at the Close of Spring 85Sonnet III. To a Nightingale 85Sonnet IV. To the Moon 86Sonnet V. To the South Downs 86Sonnet VI. To Hope 86Sonnet VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale 87Sonnet VIII. To Spring 87Sonnet IX 88Sonnet X. To Mrs G. 88Sonnet XI. To Sleep 89Sonnet XII. Written on the Seashore. October 1784 89Sonnet XIII. From Petrarch 90Sonnet XIV. From Petrarch 90Sonnet XV. From Petrarch 90Sonnet XVI. From Petrarch 91Sonnet XVII. From the Thirteenth Cantata of Metastasio 91Sonnet XVIII. To the Earl of Egremont 92Sonnet XIX. To Mr Hayley. On Receiving some Elegant Lines from Him 92Sonnet XX. To the Countess of Abergavenny. Written on the Anniversary of her Marriage 93Sonnet XXI. Supposed to be Written by Werther 93Sonnet XXII. By the Same. To Solitude 94Sonnet XXIII. By the Same. To the North Star 94Sonnet XXIV. By the Same 94Sonnet XXV. By the Same. Just before his Death 95Sonnet XXVI. To the River Arun 95Sonnet XXVII 96Sonnet XXVIII. To Friendship 96Sonnet XXIX. To Miss C---. On being Desired to Attempt Writing a Comedy 97Sonnet XXX. To the River Arun 97Sonnet XXXI. Written on Farm Wood, South Downs, in May 1784 98Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun, October 1785 98Sonnet XXXIII. To the Naiad of the Arun 98Sonnet XXXIV. To a Friend 99Sonnet XXXV. To Fortitude 99Sonnet XXXVI 100The Emigrants: A Poem in Two Books (1793) 100Dedication: To William Cowper, Esq. 100Book I 102Book II 111From Beachy Head: with Other Poems (1807)Beachy Head 122George Crabbe (1754-1832) 142From The Borough (1810) Letter XXII: The Poor of the BoroughPeter Grimes 143William Godwin (1756-1836) 151From Political Justice (2 vols, 1793)[On Property] 153[Love of Justice] 153[On Marriage] 154Ann Yearsley (née Cromartie) (1756-1806) 155From Poems on various subjects (1787)Addressed to Sensibility 158A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade (1788) 160William Blake (1757-1827) 169All Religions Are One (composed c.1788) 174There is no Natural Religion (composed c.1788) 175The Book of Thel (1789) 176Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789-94)Songs of Innocence (1789) 179Introduction 179The Shepherd 180The Echoing Green 180The Lamb 181The Little Black Boy 181The Blossom 182The Chimney Sweeper 183The Little Boy Lost 183The Little Boy Found 184Laughing Song 184A Cradle Song 184The Divine Image 185Holy Thursday 186Night 186Spring 187Nurse's Song 188Infant Joy 189A Dream 189On Another's Sorrow 190Songs of Experience (1794) 191Introduction 191Earth's Answer 191The Clod and the Pebble 192Holy Thursday 192The Little Girl Lost 193The Little Girl Found 194The Chimney Sweeper 195Nurse's Song 196The Sick Rose 196The Fly 196The Angel 197The Tyger 197My Pretty Rose-Tree 198Ah, Sunflower! 198The Lily 198The Garden of Love 199The Little Vagabond 199London 199The Human Abstract 201Infant Sorrow 202A Poison Tree 202A Little Boy Lost 202A Little Girl Lost 203To Tirzah 204The Schoolboy 205The Voice of the Ancient Bard 205A Divine Image 206The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) 206The Argument 206The Voice of the Devil 207A Memorable Fancy [The Five Senses] 208Proverbs of Hell 209A Memorable Fancy [Isaiah and Ezekiel] 211A Memorable Fancy [A Printing-House in Hell] 212A Memorable Fancy [The Vanity of Angels] 213A Memorable Fancy [A Devil, My Friend] 215A Song of Liberty 216Chorus 217Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) 217The Argument 217Visions 218The First Book of Urizen (1794) 223Preludium to the First Book of Urizen 223Chapter I 224Chapter II 225Chapter III 226Chapter IVa 229Chapter IVb 229Chapter V 232Chapter VI 234Chapter VII 235Chapter VIII 237Chapter IX 238Letter from William Blake to the Revd Dr Trusler, 23 August 1799 (extract) 240From The Pickering Manuscript (composed 1800-4)The Mental Traveller 241The Crystal Cabinet 244From Milton (composed 1803-8)[And did those feet in ancient time] 245Mary Robinson (née Darby) (1758-1800) 246From The Wild Wreath (1804)A London Summer Morning 249From Lyrical Tales (1800)The Haunted Beach 250From 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. 252From Memoirs of the Late Mrs Robinson (1801)Mrs Robinson to the Poet Coleridge 254From The Wild Wreath (1804)The Savage of Aveyron 256Robert Burns (1759-1796) 260From Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786)Epistle to J. L*****k, an old Scotch bard, 1 April 1785 262Man was Made to Mourn, A Dirge 266To a Mouse, on turning her up in her nest, with the plough, November 1785 268From Francis Grose, The Antiquities of Scotland (1791)Tam o' Shanter. A Tale 270Song ['Oh my love's like the red, red rose'] 276Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) 276From A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)[On Poverty] 278From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)Introduction 279[On the Lack of Learning] 282[A Revolution in Female Manners] 283[On State Education] 283Helen Maria Williams (1762-1827) 285From Poems (1786)Part of an Irregular Fragment, found in a Dark Passage of the Tower 290From Letters written in France in the summer of 1790 (1790)[A Visit to the Bastille] 296[On Revolution] 297[Retrospect from England] 298From Julia, A Novel (1790)The Bastille, A Vision 299A Farewell, for Two Years, to England. A Poem (1791) 301From Letters containing a Sketch of the Politics of France (1795)[Madame Roland] 306Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) 307From A Series of Plays (1798)Introductory Discourse (extracts) 308William Lisle Bowles (1762-1851) 315From Fourteen Sonnets (1789)Sonnet VIII. To the River Itchin, near Winton 315John Thelwall (1764-1834) 316From 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 318From The Tribune (1795)Dangerous tendency of the attempt to suppress political discussion 319Civic 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) 320Letter from John Thelwall to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 10 May 1796 (extract) 321From 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 322William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge,Lyrical Ballads (1798) 327Contents 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) 330The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in seven parts (Coleridge) 332The Foster-Mother's Tale: A Dramatic Fragment (Coleridge) 349Lines 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) 352The Nightingale; A Conversational Poem, written in April 1798 (Coleridge) 353The Female Vagrant (Wordsworth) 356Goody Blake and Harry Gill: A True Story (Wordsworth) 363Lines written at a small distance from my house, and sent by my little boy to the person to whom they are addressed (Wordsworth) 366Simon Lee, the old Huntsman, with an incident in which he was concerned (Wordsworth) 368Anecdote for Fathers, showing how the art of lying may be taught (Wordsworth) 370We are seven (Wordsworth) 372Lines written in early spring (Wordsworth) 374The Thorn (Wordsworth) 375The Last of the Flock (Wordsworth) 382The Dungeon (Coleridge) 384The Mad Mother (Wordsworth) 385The Idiot Boy (Wordsworth) 388Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening (Wordsworth) 399Expostulation and Reply (Wordsworth) 400The Tables Turned: an evening scene, on the same subject (Wordsworth) 401Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch (Wordsworth) 402The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman (Wordsworth) 403The Convict (Wordsworth) 405Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, 13 July 1798 (Wordsworth) 407William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 411A Night-Piece 417The Discharged Soldier 418The Ruined Cottage 422First Part 422Second Part 427The Pedlar 435[Not useless do I deem] 444[Away, away - it is the air] 447[The Two-Part Prelude] 448First Part 448Second Part 460[There is an active principle] (extract) 473From Lyrical Ballads (1800)[There was a boy] 474Nutting 475[Strange fits of passion I have known] 476Song ('She dwelt among th' untrodden ways') 477[A slumber did my spirit seal] 478[Three years she grew in sun and shower] 478[The Prelude: Glad Preamble] 479[Prospectus to 'The Recluse'] 481From Lyrical Ballads (1800)The Brothers: A Pastoral Poem 483Preface to Lyrical Ballads 495Note to 'The Thorn' 507Note to Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' 509Michael: A Pastoral Poem 510From Poems in Two Volumes (1807)[I travelled among unknown men] 522From Lyrical Ballads (1802)Appendix to the Preface to Lyrical Ballads: On Poetic Diction (extracts) 522Preface to Lyrical Ballads (extracts from revised text) 525From Poems in Two Volumes (1807)To H.C., Six Years Old 527The Rainbow 528[These chairs they have no words to utter] 528From Poems in Two Volumes (1807)Resolution and Independence 529[I grieved for Buonaparte] 533[The world is too much with us] 534Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802 534To Toussaint L'Ouverture 535[It is a beauteous evening, calm and free] 5361 September 1802 536London 1802 537[Great men have been among us] 537Ode (from 1815: Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood) 538From The Five-Book Prelude 543[The Infant Prodigy] (from Book IV) 543From Poems (1815)Daffodils ('I wandered lonely as a cloud') 546From Poems in Two Volumes (1807)Stepping Westward 547The Solitary Reaper 548From The Thirteen-Book Prelude[The Arab Dream] (from Book V) 549[Crossing the Alps] (from Book VI) 553[The London Beggar] (from Book VII) 556[London and the Den of Yordas] (from Book VIII) 556[Paris, December 1791] (from Book IX) 558[Blois, Spring 1792] (from Book IX) 559[Beaupuy] (from Book IX) 560[Godwinism] (from Book X) 563[Confusion and Recovery; Racedown, Spring 1796] (from Book X) 564[The Climbing of Snowdon] (from Book XIII) 566From Poems in Two Volumes (1807)Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont 570A Complaint 572Star Gazers 573[St Paul's] 574From Poems (1815)Surprised by joy - impatient as the wind 575From Poems (1815)Preface (extract) 575From The River Duddon (1820)Conclusion ('I thought of thee, my partner and my guide') 578From The Fourteen-Book Prelude (1850), Book VII (extract)[Genius of Burke!] 579From Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems (1835)Airey-Force Valley 580From Poetical Works (1836)Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg 580From The Fenwick Notes (1843)[On the 'Ode'] (extract) 582[On 'We are Seven'] (extract) 583Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) 000From The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Canto VI[Melrose Abbey] 000Caledonia 000From MARMION (1808), from Canto VLochinvar 000From Tales of My Landlord (1819); The Bride of LammermoorLucy Ashton's Song 000From J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Scott (1837-8)Scott's Diary: 12 February 1826 000Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) 584From The Grasmere JournalsWednesday 3 September 1800 585Friday 3 October 1800 (extract) 586Thursday 15 April 1802 586Thursday 29 April 1802 5874 October 1802 588A Cottage in Grasmere Vale 588After-recollection at sight of the same cottage 589A Sketch 589Thoughts on my Sickbed 590Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 592From Sonnets from Various Authors (1796)Sonnet V. To the River Otter 598Letter from S. T. Coleridge to George Dyer, 10 March 1795 (extract) 599From Poems on Various Subjects (1796)Effusion XXXV. Composed 20 August 1795, at Clevedon, Somersetshire parallel text 600From Poetical Works (1834)The Eolian Harp. Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire (1834) parallel text 601From Poems (1797)Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement 606Religious Musings (extract) 608Letter from S. T. Coleridge to John Thelwall, 19 November 1796 (extract) 610Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Robert Southey, 17 July 1797 (extract) 612 (including early version of This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison) parallel text 613From Poetical Works (1834)This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison (1834) parallel text 613Letter from S. T. Coleridge to John Thelwall, 14 October 1797 (extract) 618Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 16 October 1797 (extract) 618From Christabel; Kubla Khan: A Vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816)Of the Fragment of 'Kubla Khan' 619[Kubla Khan] (MS) parallel text 620Kubla Khan (1816) parallel text 621From Fears in Solitude, written in 1798 during an alarm of an invasion; to which are added France: an Ode; and Frost at Midnight (1798) 624Frost at Midnight (1798) parallel text 624From Poetical Works (1834) 624Frost at Midnight (1834) parallel text 625France: An Ode 630Fears in Solitude. Written April 1798, During the Alarms of an Invasion 633From Christabel; Kubla Khan: a vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816)Christabel 639Preface 639Part I 640The Conclusion to Part I 646Part II 647The Conclusion to Part II 655Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 6 April 1799 (extract) 656From The Annual Anthology (1800)Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest 657The Day-Dream 658From The Morning Post (6 September 1802)The Picture; or, The Lover's Resolution 659A Letter to Sara Hutchinson, 4 April 1802. Sunday Evening. 663From Poetical Works (1828)A Day-Dream 672From Sibylline Leaves (1817)Dejection: An Ode 673From The Morning Post (11 September 1802)Chamouny; the Hour Before Sunrise. A Hymn 677Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Robert Southey, 11 September 1803 (extract) (including early version of The Pains of Sleep) parallel text 680From Christabel; Kubla Khan: a vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816)The Pains of Sleep (1816) parallel text 681From The Morning Post (11 October 1802)Epigram on Spots in the Sun, from Wernicke 684Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 14 October 1803 (extract) 684Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Richard Sharp, 15 January 1804 (extract) 685To 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 686Letter from S. T. Coleridge to William Wordsworth, 30 May 1815 (extract) 689From Biographia Literaria (1817)Chapter 13 (extract) 691Chapter 14 (extracts) 692From Sibylline Leaves (1817)The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In seven parts. 694From Poetical Works (1829)Constancy to an Ideal Object 711From Table Talk (edited from MS)[On 'The Ancient Mariner'] 712[The True Way for a Poet] 712[On 'The Recluse'] 712[Keats] 713Francis, Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850) 714From Edinburgh Review (November 1814)Review of William Wordsworth, 'The Excursion' (extracts) 715Robert Southey (1774-1843) 720From The Monthly Magazine (October 1797)Hannah, A Plaintive Tale 724From The Morning Post (30 June 1798)The Idiot 725From The Morning Post (9 August 1798)The Battle of Blenheim 727From The Morning Post (26 September 1798)Night 729From Critical Review (October 1798)Review of William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge,'Lyrical Ballads' (1798) 730From Poems (1799)The Sailor who had Served in the Slave-Trade 732Charles Lamb (1775-1834) 735From Blank Verse by Charles Lloyd and Charles Lamb (1798)The Old Familiar Faces 739From The Annual Anthology (1799)Living without God in the World 740Letter from Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 30 January 1801 (extract) 741Letter from Charles Lamb to John Taylor, 30 June 1821 (extract) 742From Elia (1823)Imperfect Sympathies 742Witches, and Other Night-Fears 748William Hazlitt (1778-1830) 753From The Round Table (1817)On Gusto 756From The New Monthly Magazine (February 1822)The Fight 759From The Liberal (April 1823)My First Acquaintance with Poets 771From The Spirit of the Age (1825)Mr Coleridge 784James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) 792From The Examiner (14 May 1815)To Hampstead 795From The Story of Rimini, A Poem (1816)Canto III. The Fatal Passion (extract) 796From The Examiner (21 September 1817)On the Grasshopper and Cricket 801From Foliage (1818)To Percy Shelley, on the degrading notions of deity 802To the Same 802To John Keats 803From The Indicator (1820)A Now, Descriptive of a Hot Day 803Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) 805From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)[Ann of Oxford Street] 810[The Malay] 812[The Pains of Opium] 814[The Pains of Opium: Visions of Piranesi] 816[Oriental Dreams] 816[Easter Sunday] 818From London Magazine (October 1823)On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth 820From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (February 1839)[On Wordsworth's 'There was a boy'] 823From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (March 1845)Suspiria de Profundis: The Affliction of Childhood (extract) 825From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (June 1845)Suspiria de Profundis: The Palimpsest (extract) 830From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (July 1845)Suspiria de Profundis: Finale to Part I. Savannah-la-Mar 831Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) 833[The Immortal Dinner] 834George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) 837From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt (1812)Written Beneath a Picture 846From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt (2nd edn, 1812)Stanzas 846From Hebrew Melodies (1815)She Walks in Beauty 848From Poems (1816)When we two parted 849Fare Thee Well! 850Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto the Third (1816) 852From The Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems (1816)Prometheus 887Stanzas to Augusta 888Epistle to Augusta 890From The Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems (1816)Darkness 894Manfred, A Dramatic Poem (1817) 896Dramatis Personae 896Act I 896Act II 906Act III 921Letter from Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 February 1817 (extract) (including 'So we'll go no more a-roving') 932Don Juan (1819)Dedication 933Canto I 938Canto II 988To the Po. 2 June 1819 1036Letter from Lord Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1819 (extract) 1037Messalonghi, 22 January 1824. On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year 1037Richard Woodhouse, Jr (1788-1834) 1039Letter from Richard Woodhouse to John Taylor, c.27 October 1818 (extract) 1040Letter from Richard Woodhouse to John Taylor, 19 September 1819 (extract) 1041Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 1043From Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude, and Other Poems (1816)To Wordsworth 1052Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude 1053Journal-Letter from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock, 22 July to 2 August 1816 (extract) 1073From The Examiner (19 January 1817)Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 1071From 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 1075From The Examiner (11 January 1818)Ozymandias 1079On Love 1080From Rosalind and Helen (1819)Lines written among the Euganean Hills, October 1818 1081From Posthumous Poems (1824)Stanzas written in Dejection, near Naples 1090The Mask of Anarchy. Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester 1164From Prometheus Unbound (1820)Ode to the West Wind 1175England in 1819 1180'Lift not the painted veil' 1181From Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments (1840)On Life 1177Prometheus Unbound (1820)Preface 1091Dramatis Personae 1095Act I 1095Act II 1118Act III 1136Act IV 1149From Prometheus Unbound (1820)To a Skylark 1181Epipsychidion (1821)A Defence of Poetry; or, Remarks Suggested by an Essay Entitled'The Four Ages of Poetry' (extracts) 1184Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats (1821) 1199From Posthumous Poems (1824)Music, when soft voices die 1217When passion's trance is overpast 1218To Edward Williams ('The serpent is shut out from Paradise') 1218With a Guitar, to Jane 1220John Clare (1793-1864) 1223From The London Magazine (1822)To Elia 1224Sonnet 1224From The Shepherd's Calendar (1827)January (A Cottage Evening) (extract) 1225June (extract) 1226To the Snipe 1227The Flitting 1230The Badger 1235A Vision 1237'I am' 1237An Invite to Eternity 1238Little Trotty Wagtail 1239Silent Love 1239['O could I be as I have been'] 1240Felicia Dorothea Hemans (née Browne) (1793-1835) 1241From Poems (1808)Written on the Sea-Shore 1247From Welsh Melodies (1822)The Rock of Cader Idris 1247From The Works of Mrs Hemans (1839)Manuscript fragments in prose 1248From Records of Woman: With Other Poems (1828)Records of Woman (complete sequence) 1249Dedication 1250Arabella Stuart 1250The Bride of the Greek Isle 1257The Switzer's Wife 1262Properzia Rossi 1265Gertrude, or Fidelity till Death 1269Imelda 1271Edith, a Tale of the Woods 1274The Indian City 1279The Peasant Girl of the Rhône 1284Indian Woman's Death Song 1286Joan of Arc, in Rheims 1288Pauline 1291Juana 1293The American Forest Girl 1295Costanza 1297Madeline, a Domestic Tale 1300The Queen of Prussia's Tomb 1302The Memorial Pillar 1304The Grave of a Poetess 1306Miscellaneous Pieces (1828)The Homes of England 1308The Sicilian Captive 1309To Wordsworth 1312The Spirit's Mysteries 1312The Graves of a Household 1314From Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems (1830)The Land of Dreams 1315Nature's Farewell 1316Second Sight 1318From The Works of Mrs Hemans (1839)Despondency and Aspiration 1319From The New Monthly Magazine (1835)Thoughts During Sickness: II. Sickness Like Night 1323John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) 1323From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (August 1818)The Cockney School of Poetry No. IV (extracts) 1327John Keats (1795-1821) 1332From Poems (1817)On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 1342Addressed to Haydon 1343On the Grasshopper and the Cricket 1344From Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1818) (extracts)['A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'] 1344[Hymn to Pan] 1345[The Pleasure Thermometer] 1347Letter from John Keats to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817 (extract) 1349Letter from John Keats to George and Tom Keats, 21 December 1817 (extract) 1350On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again 1351Sonnet: 'When I have fears that I may cease to be' 1351Letter from John Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 February 1818 (extract) 1352From Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820)Isabella; or, The Pot of BasilLetter from John Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 May 1818 (extract) 1353Letter from John Keats to Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 1818 1375From Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820)Hyperion: A Fragment 1354From Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820)The Eve of St Agnes 1376Journal-Letter from John Keats to George and Georgiana Keats,14 February-3 May 1819 (extracts) 1388La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad 1390From Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820)Ode to Psyche 1393Ode to a Nightingale 1395Ode on a Grecian Urn 1397Ode on Melancholy 1400Ode on Indolence 1401From Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820)Lamia 1403To Autumn 1419The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream 1420Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art 1433[This living hand, now warm and capable] 1433Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849)