Contents
 
Acknowledgements viii
 
Part 1 Introduction 1
 
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) 32