Romantic Poetry An Annotated Anthology

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. Offers a thorough examination of the essential elements of Romantic Poetry Highly selective, the text examines each of its poems in great detail Discusses theme, genre, structure, rhyme, form, imagery, and poetic influence Helpful head notes and annotations provide relevant contextual information and in-depth commentary

Michael O’Neill is Professor of English at Durham University. He is currently a Director of the University’s Institute of Advanced Study. He has published books, chapters, and articles on many aspects of Romantic and twentieth-century poetry, and received a Cholmondeley Award for Poets for his own poetry in 1990. His latest monograph is The All-Sustaining Air: Romantic Legacies and Renewals in British, American, and Irish Poetry since 1900 (2007).

Charles Mahoney is Associate Professor of English at the University of Connecticut, where he is also currently the Associate Director of the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. He has published on a number of Romantic writers, including William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt, and is presently at work on a project entitled Revolutionary Measures: Romanticism, Formalism, Criticism.

Selected Contents by Theme
List of Plates
Note on Texts and Editorial Method
Index of Themes
Chronology of Events and Poetic Landmarks
Introduction: Romantic Doubleness
Acknowledgements
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, ne? Aikin (1743--1825)
The Rights of Woman.Inscription for an Ice-House
To Mr. S. T. Coleridge
Charlotte Smith, ne? Turner (1749--1806)
['The partial Muse, has from my earliest hours']
On the Departure of the Nightingale
Written on the Sea Shore. - October, 1784
To the River Arun
To Melancholy
To Night
Written in the Church-yard at Middleton in Sussex
William Blake (1757--1827)
From Songs of Innocence and of Experience
(from Innocence)
Introduction
The Ecchoing Green
The Lamb
The Little Black Boy
The Chimney Sweeper
Holy Thursday
Nurse's Song (from Experience)
Introduction
The Clod and the Pebble
Holy Thursday
The Sick Rose
The Fly
The Tyger
Ah! Sun-flower
London
A Poison Tree
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
The First Book of Urizen
The Mental Traveller
The Crystal Cabinet
William Wordsworth (1770--1850)
Lines written at a small distance from my House, and sent by my little Boy to the Person to whom they are addressed
Simon Lee, the old Huntsman, With an incident in which he was concerned
Anecdote for Fathers, Shewing how the practice of Lying may be taught
Lines written in early Spring
The Thorn
The Last of the Flock
The Idiot Boy
Expostulation and Reply
The Tables Turned; An Evening Scene, on the same subject
Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798
The Ruined Cottage
Strange Fits of Passion I have Known
Song: 'She Dwelt among th'untrodden Ways'
A Slumber did my Spirit Seal
The Two April Mornings
The Fountain, A Conversation
Nutting
Michael, A Pastoral Poem.From The Prelude (1805), Book 1
Resolution and Independence
The World is Too Much With Us
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803.Ode (from 1815 entitled 'Ode
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood')
The Solitary Reaper
Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834)
The Eolian Harp
Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire
Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
Kubla Khan
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Christabel
Frost at Midnight
France: An Ode
The Nightingale: A Conversation Poem, April, 1798
The Pains of Sleep
Dejection: An Ode
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788--1824)
Stanzas to [Augusta].[Epistle to Augusta]
Stanzas to the Po.Don Juan
The Dedication.Canto 1
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822)
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Mont Blanc
Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni
Prometheus Unbound, Act I
Ode to the West Wind
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of 'Endymion', 'Hyperion', etc
Felicia Hemans, n'e Browne (1793--1835)
Properzia Rossi
The Homes of England
The Spirit's Mysteries
The Graves of a Household
The Image in Lava
Casabianca
The Lost Pleiad
The Mirror in the Deserted Hall
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
The Eve of St Agnes
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
Ode to Psyche
If by dull rhymes our english must be chain'd
Ode to a Nightingale.Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy.Ode on Indolence
To Autumn
Bright star, Would I Were Stedfast as thou art
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) (1802--38)
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