Part 2 Timeline of the Late Eighteenth Century and Romantic Period 21
Part 3 Biographies 47
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743 1825) 49
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 1849) 51
William Blake (1757 1827) 54
Robert Burns (1759 1796) 57
Lord George Gordon Byron (1788 1824) 59
John Clare (1793 1864) 61
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 1834) 63
Felicia Hemans (1793 1835) 66
(James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784 1859) 69
John Keats (1795 1821) 72
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802 1838) 74
Thomas Moore (1779 1852) 77
Mary Robinson (1758 1800) 80
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 1822) 82
Charlotte Smith (1749 1806) 85
Robert Southey (1774 1843) 87
William Wordsworth (1770 1850) 90
Ann Yearsley (1753 1806) 93
Part 4 Readings 95
First–Generation Romantic Poets 95
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade ; The Rights of Woman ; Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem 97
Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets 101
Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head 107
Ann Yearsley, Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave–trade ; Bristol Elegy 110
William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience 115
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ; The Book of Urizen ; The Mental Traveller 124
Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon 132
Robert Burns, Lyrics 137
William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads 144
William Wordsworth, Resolution and Independence ; Ode: Intimations of Immortality ; Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont ; Surprized by Joy 152
William Wordsworth, The Prelude 163
William Wordsworth, The Excursion 174
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Conversation Poems: The Eolian Harp , This Lime–Tree Bower My Prison , Frost at Midnight , and Dejection: An Ode 179
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ; Kubla Khan; The Pains of Sleep ; Christabel 187
Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer and The Curse of Kehama 196
Second–Generation Romantic Poets 203
Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies 205
Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini 211
Lord Byron, Lara ; When We Two Parted ; Stanzas to Augusta ; Manfred 215
Lord Byron, Childe Harold s Pilgrimage 223
Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos 1 4 232
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab ; Alastor; Laon and Cythna [The Revolt of Islam] 242
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Hymn to Intellectual Beauty ; Mont Blanc ; Ozymandias ; Ode to the West Wind ; the late poems to Jane Williams 251
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound; Adonais; The Triumph of Life 260
John Keats, Endymion ; Sleep and Poetry ; The Sonnets 268
John Keats, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion 277
John Keats, The 1820 Volume 284
Third–Generation Romantic Poets 295
John Clare: Lyrics 297
Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman: With Other Poems 304
Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Love s Last Lesson ; Lines of Life ; Lines Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a Love –Letter ; Sappho s Song ; A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk. By Stewardson 311
Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death s Jest –Book and Lyrics 318
Part 5 Further Reading 325
General Critical Reading 327
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743 1825) 328
Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803 1849) 328
William Blake (1757 1827) 329
Robert Burns (1759 1796) 329
Lord George Gordon Byron (1788 1824) 329
John Clare (1793 1864) 330
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 1834) 330
Felicia Hemans (1793 1835) 331
(James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784 1859) 331
John Keats (1795 1821) 331
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802 1838) 331
Thomas Moore (1779 1852) 332
Mary Robinson (1758 1800) 332
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 1822) 332
Charlotte Smith (1749 1806) 333
Robert Southey (1774 1843) 333
William Wordsworth (1770 1850) 333
Ann Yearsley (1753 1806) 334
Index 335
Michael O′Neill (born 1953 in Aldershot, Hampshire) is an English poet, and academic, specialising in the Romantic period and post–war poetry. A graduate of Exeter College, Oxford, O′Neill lectured at Durham University.
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