The Penguin Book of Romantic Poetry

PREFACE
INTRODUCTION: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
1. Origins
(I) Revolution and Romantic Vision
(II) A New Style and a New Spirit
(III) 'And All Things In Himself': Romantic Platonism
2. The Romantic Poets In Context
(I) The First Generation
(II) A Gap
(III) The Second Generation
(IV) The Sense of an Ending
THE POETRY
I. Romantic Hallmarks
1. CHARLOTTE SMITH: To the South Downs
(Elegiac Sonnets 1784)
2. ROBERT BURNS: To a Mountain Daisy (1786)
3. MARY ROBINSON: A London Summer Morning
(1794; publ. 1804)
4. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: KublaKhan
(Nov. 1797; publ. 1816)
5. CHARLES LAMB: Old Familiar Faces (1798)
6. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Lucy Poems
(winter 1798-9; publ. Lyrical
Ballads 1800)
(I) Lucy Gray (c. Nov.)
(II) Strange Fits of Passion I Have Known (c.
Dec.)
(III) She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways (c.
Dec.)
(IV) A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal (c. Dec.)
(V) Three Years She Grew (Feb.)
7. THOMAS CAMPBELL: Hohenlinden (1801;
publ. 1809)
8. ROBERT SOUTHEY: The Inchcape Rock
(1803)
9. WILLIAM BLAKE: And Did Those Feet (1802-
4; engraved Milton
c. 1808)
10. WALTER SCOTT: Lochinvar (Marmion 1808)
11. THOMAS MOORE: Oh! Blame Not the Bard
(1810)
12. LORD BYRON: 'Revelry by Night' (Childe
Harold III, stanzas 16-18,
21-8) April 1816; publ. Dec.
13. JOHN KEATS: To Autumn (Sept. 1819; publ.
1820)
ц. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: To a Skylark (1830)
15. JAMES HOGG: When the Kye Comes Hame
(1823)
16. JOHN CLARE: The Shepherd's Calendar (July,
90-131) c. 1824; publ.
1827
17. THOMAS HOOD: I Remember, I Remember
(1826)
18. FELICIA HEMANS: Casablanca (1824; publ.
1826)
19. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: Lines of Life
(1829)
20. CAROLINE NORTON: My Arab Steed (1830)
21. JAMES LEIGH HUNT: Abou Ben Adhem (1834)
II. Narratives of Love
1. MARY ROBINSON: from Sappho and Phaon
(1796)
2. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Ruined
Cottage (1797-8; Excursion
1814 from MS 1968)
3. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Love (Nov.
1799; publ. 1817)
4. WILLIAM BLAKE!
(i) The Crystal Cabinet (c. 1803; from MS 1905)
(ii) The Mental Traveller (c. 1803; from MS 1905)
5. MARY TIGHE: 'A Glimpse of Love' (Psyche I,
stanzas 16-32) 1802-3;
publ. 1805
6. THOMAS CAMPBELL: Gertrude of Wyoming II
(1809)
7. LORD BYRON: The Bride of Abydos (stanzas
22-7) 1814
8. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Alastor (lines 140-
222) 1816
9. JAMES LEIGH HUNT: Paulo and Francesca
(Rimini III, lines 482-
564)1816
10. THOMAS MOORE: The Fire-Worshippers
(from Lalla Rookh III, lines
201-453)1817
11. JOHN KEATS: The Eve of St Agnes (Jan.-Feb.
1819; publ. 1820)
12. LORD BYRON: Juan and Haidee (from Don
Juan II-IV) 1819-21
13. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: The Indian
Bride (Improvisatrice
1823)
14. FELICIA HEMANS: Arabella Stuart (Records
of Woman 1828)
15. CAROLINE NORTON: The Faithless Knight
(1830)
III. Romantic Solitude, Suffering and Endurance
1. WILLIAM COWPER: Crazy Kate (Task I, 534
-56) 1785
2. JOANNA BAILLIE: The Storm-Beat Maid
(1790)
3. CHARLOTTE SMITH: The Female Exile (Nov.
1792; publ. 1797)
4. WILLIAM BLAKE: Visions of the Daughters of
Albion (1793)
5. ROBERT SOUTHEY: Mary the Maid of the Inn
(1797)
6. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Wordsworthian
Solitaries
(i) Old Man Travelling (May 1797; Lyrical Ballads
1798)
(ii) The Discharged Soldier (Feb. 1798; publ.
1850/from MS 1970)
(iii) The Mad Mother (Lyrical Ballads 1798)
(iv) Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman
(Lyrical Ballads
1798)
(v) Michael (lines 217-490) Lyrical Ballads 1800
(vi) The Leech-Gatherer (spring 1802; publ.
1807)
(vii) The London Beggar (1805 Prelude VII, 594-
622) publ. 1850/ from MS 1926
7. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: 'Alone, Alone'
(i) The Ancient Mariner (Lyrical Ballads 1798)
(ii) Pains of Sleep (Sept. 1803; publ. 1816)
8. THOMAS CAMPBELL: Lord Ullin's Daughter
(1809)
9. MARY BRYAN: The Visit (lines 45-126) 1815
10. LORD BYRON: The Prisoner of Chilian (1816)
11. JOHN KEATS: Isabella, or The Pot of Basil
(stanzas 32-63) April
1818; publ. 1820
12. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Final Moments (The
Cenci V, scenes
iii-iv) 1819
13. LORD BYRON: The Shipwreck (from Don Juan
II) 1819
14. THOMAS HOOD: The Dream of Eugene Aram
(1826)
15. FELICIA HEMANS: Indian Woman's Death
Song (Records of Woman
1828)
16. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: She Sat Alone
Beside Her Hearth
(c. 1835; publ. 1839)
IV. Ennobling Interchange: Man and Nature
1. ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD:
(i) The Mouse's Petition (1773)
(ii) from A Summer's Evening's Meditation (lines
17-98)
1773
2. WILLIAM COWPER: The Winter Evening (Task
IV, 267-332)
1785
3. ROBERT BURNS: TO a Mouse, On Turning Her
Up in Her Nest with
the Plough, November 1785 (1786)
4. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Conversation
Poems
(i) The Eolian Harp (20 Aug. 1795; publ. 1796)
(ii) This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison (July 1797;
publ. 1800)
(iii) Frost at Midnight (Feb. 1798; publ. 1798)
(iv) The Nightingale (May 1798; publ. Lyrical
Ballads)
5. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: 'Images of a
Mighty Mind'
(i) Tintem Abbey (13 July 1798; publ. Lyrical
Ballads)
(ii) There Was a Boy (Oct. 1798; publ. Lyrical
Ballads 1800)
(iii) The Two-Part Prelude (Oct. 1798-Dec. 1799;
publ. 1850/from MS 1972)
(iv) Statue Horse (Feb. 1804; from MS 1969)
(v) Climbing of Snowdon (1805 Prelude XIII, 10-
73) Feb. 1804; publ. 1850/from MS 1926
(vi) Crossing the Alps (1805 Prelude VI, 494-572)
March 1804; publ. 1850/from MS 1926
6. WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES: from Coombe Ellen
(1798)
7. CHARLOTTE SMITH: Beachy Head (lines 346
-505) c. 1805; publ.
1807 2
8. AMELIA OPIE: Stanzas Written Under Aeolus'
Harp (1808)
9. ISABELLA LICKBARROW: On Esthwaite Water
(1814)
10. LORD BYRON: 'Concentred in a Life Intense'
(i) Lake Leman (from Childe Harold III) June
1816; publ.
Dec. 1817
(ii) Epistle to Augusta (July 1816; publ. 1830)
11. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: 'The Secret
Strength of Things'
(i) Mont Blanc (July 1816; publ. 1817)
(ii) To Jane: The Invitation (2 Feb. 1822; publ.
1824)
(iii) To Jane: A Recollection (Feb. 1822; publ.
1824)
12. JOHN KEATS: 'A Sort of Oneness'
(i) Endymion (I, 777-802) c. April 1817; publ.
1818
(ii) Epistle, to J. H. Reynolds (lines 82-105)
March 1818; publ. 1848
13. SAMUEL PALMER: Twilight Time (lines 1-24) c.
1827; from MS
1942
14. JOHN CLARE: This Leaning Tree with Ivy
Overhung (early 1830s;
from MS 1979) 3
15. FELICIA HEMANS: Remembrance of Nature
(1835; publ. 1838)
16. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON:
(i) Scale Force, Cumberland (c. 1836; publ.
1839)
(ii) Fountains Abbey (c. 1836; publ. 1839)
V. Romantic Odes
1. ROBERT BURNS: Despondency, An Ode
(1786)
2. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Immortality
Ode (spring 1802/
Feb. 1804; publ. 1807)
3. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Dejection: An
Ode (summer 1802;
publ. 4 Oct.)
4. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Hymn to Intellectual
Beauty (July 1816;
publ. Jan. 1817)
5. JOHN KEATS: Odes of Spring 1819 (publ.
1820)
(i) Ode to Psyche (late April)
(ii) Ode to a Nightingale (early May)
(iii) Ode on a Grecian Urn (May)
(iv) Ode on Melancholy (May)
(v) Ode on Indolence (late May)
6. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Ode to the West Wind
(Oct. 1819; publ. 1820)
VI. Romantic Lyric and Song
1. WILLIAM BLAKE: Song ('How sweet I
roamed') Poetical Sketches
178З
2. ROBERT BURNS: Songs 1786-93
(i) It Was upon a Lammas Night (1786)
(ii) The Banks 0' Doon (March 1791; publ. 1808)
(iii) A Red Red Rose (collected 1793; publ. 1794)
3. WILLIAM BLAKE: from Songs of Innocence
(1784-9; engraved 1789)
(i) Introduction
(ii) The Shepherd
(iii) Infant Joy
(iv) The Echoing Green
(v) Laughing Song (May 1784)
(vi) Nurse's Song (c. 1784)
(vii) Holy Thursday (c. 1784)
(viii) The Lamb
(ix) The Chimney Sweeper
(x) The Divine Image
4. SUSANNA BLAMIRE:
(i) The Siller Croun (1790; publ. 1842)
(ii) Oh Bid Me Not to Wander (c. 1792; publ.
1842)
5. WILLIAM BLAKE: from Songs of Experience
(1791-2; engraved 1794)
(i) Introduction (c. 1794)
(ii) Earth's Answer (c. 1794)
(iii) My Pretty Rose Tree
(iv) The Clod and the Pebble
(v) The Garden of Love
(vi) A Poison Tree
(vii) Infant Sorrow
(viii) London
(ix) Nurse's Song
(x) The Tyger
(xi) The Human Abstract
(xii) The Sick Rose
(xiii) The Chimney Sweeper
(xiv) Holy Thursday
(xv) The Fly
(xvi) Ah! Sun-Flower (written c. 1794)
6. ANN BATTEN CRISTALL: Through Springtime
Walks
(1795)
7. MARY ROBINSON: A Thousand Torments
(1797)
8. THOMAS CAMPBELL: Written on Visiting a
Scene in Argyllshire
(c. 1798; publ. 1800)
9. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH:
i. Alfoxden Lyric (1798; publ. Lyrical Ballads)
Lines Written in Early Spring
11. Goslar Lyrics ('1798-9; publ. Lyrical Ballads 1800)
(i) Two April Mornings
(ii) The Fountain
in. Grasmere Lyrics (spring 1802; publ. Poems 1807)
(i) To the Cuckoo
(ii) The Rainbow
(iii) To H. C., Six Years Old
(iv) The Cock is Crowing
(v) To a Butterfly ('I've watched you')
(vi) I Have Thoughts that Are Fed by the Sun
(from MS 1947)
(vii) The Sun Has Long Been Set
iv. Grasmere Lyrics (1804-5; publ. Poems 1807)
(i) Daffodils (Feb. 1804, expanded c. 1815)
(ii) Stepping Westward
(iii) The Solitary Reaper
10. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Lyrics 1798-
1803
(i) Something Childish, but Very Natural (April
1799; publ.
1800)
(ii) The Keepsake (1802)
(iii) Answer to a Child's Question (1802)
11. THOMAS MOORE: Away with this Pouting
(1801)
12. CHARLOTTE SMITH: A Walk by the Water
(1804)
13. MARY TIGHE: Address to My Harp (c. 1804;
publ. 1811)
14. DOROTHY WORDSWORTH: A Cottage in
Grasmere Vale (c. 1805;
from MS 1882)
15. JANE TAYLOR: The Star (1806)
16. LORD BYRON: Lyrics Early and Late
(i) The Maid of Athens (c. Jan. 1810; publ.
1812)
(ii) She Walks in Beauty (June 1814; publ. 1815)
(iii) Stanzas for Music ('There be none of Beauty's
daughters') 1816
(iv) Stanzas for Music ('There's not a joy') 1816
(v) We'll Go No More A-Roving (28 Feb. 1817;
publ. 1830)
(vi) The Isles of Greece (Don Juan, Canto III, 86
-7) 1821
(vii) On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
(22 Jan. 1824; publ. 1824) 400
17. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Lyric Poetry 1817-
21
(i) To Constantia, Singing (late 1817; publ. Jan. 1818)
(ii) Stanzas Written in Dejection, December
1818, Near Naples (publ.
1824)
(iii) The Cloud (1820)
(iv) Hellas: The Last Chorus (Oct. 1821; publ.
1822)
(v) Music, When Soft Voices Die (c. 1821; publ.
1824)
18. JOHN KEATS: Lyrics 1818-19
(i) Where Be Те Going (21 March 1818; publ.
1848)
(ii) The Witching Time (14 Oct. 1818; publ. 1848)
(iii) I Had a Dove (c. Dec. 1818; publ. 1848)
(iv) Hush, Hush! Tread Softly (c. Dec. 1818; publ.
1845)
(v) This Living Hand (c. Nov. 1819; from MS
1898)
19. JOHN CLARE: Song ('Sad was the day') 1820
20. THOMAS HOOD: Ruth (1827)
21. CHARLES LAMB:
(i) To Louisa Martin, Whom I Used to Call
'Monkey' (1827)
(ii) In My Own Album (1829)
22. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: Song: 'My
heart is like the failing
hearth' (1827)
23. FELICIA HEMANS:
(i) The Graves of a Household (1828)
(ii) A Parting Song (1828)
24. CAROLINE NORTON: Dreams (1830)
25. JAMES HOGG: When Maggy Gangs Away
(1831)
VII. The Romantic Sonnet
1. THOMAS WARTON: To the River Loden
(1777)
2. CHARLOTTE SMITH: from Elegiac Sonnets,
1784
(i) The Partial Muse
(ii) Should the Lone Wanderer
3. WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES: from Fourteen
Sonnets, 1789
(i) At a Village in Scotland
(ii) To the River Itchin
4. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE:
(i) Pantisocracy (1794)
(ii) To the River Otter (1796)
5. MARY ROBINSON: from Sappho and Phaon
(1796)
(i) Sappho's Conjectures
(ii) Her Address to the Moon
(iii) To Phaon
6. CHARLES LAMB: When Last I Roved (1797)
7. ROBERT SOUTHEY: To a Brook Near the
Village ofCorston
(1797)
8. CHARLES LLOYD: On the Death of Priscilla
Farmer (1797)
9. ANNA SEWARD: By Derwent's Rapid Stream
(1799)
10. MARY TIGHE: Written at Scarborough (1799)
11. CHARLOTTE SMITH: from Elegiac Sonnets,
1799
(i) Written at the Close of Spring
(ii) From the Thirteenth Cantata of Metastasio
(iii) To the Earl of Egremont
12. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Sonnets of 1802
(publ. 1807)
(i) I Grieved for Bonaparte (21 May)
(ii) With Ships the Sea Was Sprinkled
(iii) Westminster Bridge (3 Sept.)
(iv) Milton, Thou Shouldst Be Living at this Hour
(v) The World Is Too Much with Us
(vi) Ere We Had Reached the Wishedfor Place (4
Oct.)
(vii) Nuns Fret Not
(viii) Scorn Not the Sonnet (c. 1802; publ. 1827)
13. MARY TIGHE: To Death (c. 1805; publ. 1811)
14. JAMES LEIGH HUNT: Sonnets, 1814-18
(i) Written During the Author's Imprisonment,
November 1814
(Examiner)
(ii) Written in the Spring that Succeeded
Imprisonment, May 1815 (Examiner)
(iii) On a Lock of Milton's Hair (Jan. 1818,
Examiner)
15. MARY BRYAN: To My Brother (1815)
16. LORD BYRON: Sonnets Written at the Villa
Diodati, July 1816
(i) Sonnet on Chillon (1816)
(ii) Sonnet to Lake Leman (1816)
17. JOHN KEATS: Sonnets of 1816-19
(i) On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (Oct.
1816; publ.
Dec.)
(ii) Great Spirits Now on Earth are Sojourning
(19-20 Nov. 1816; publ. 1817)
(iii) To Mrs Reynolds' Cat (16 Jan. 1818; publ.
1830)
(iv) On Sitting Down to Read 'King Lear' Once
Again (22 Jan. 1818; publ. 1838)
(v) When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be
(late Jan. 1818; publ. 1848)
(vi) Bright Star (autumn 1819; publ. 1838)
18. HORACE SMITH: In Egypt's Sandy Silence
(Dec. 1817; publ. 1
Feb. 1818)
19. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY:
(i) Ozymandias (Dec. 1817; publ. 11 Jan. 1818)
(ii) Lift Not the Painted Veil (late 1819; publ.
1824)
20. JOHN CLARE:
(i) Give Me the Gloomy Walk (1819-20; publ.
1820)
(ii) A Wish (1819-20; publ. 1828)
21. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The River Duddon:
Afterthought
(1820)
22. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: To Nature
(1820)
23. THOMAS HOOD: Written in Keats' 'Endymion'
(London Magazine
1823)
24. HARTLEY COLERIDGE: Long Time a Child
(1833)
25. FELICIA HEMANS: To a Distant Scene (1834)
26. CAROLINE NORTON: Be Frank with Me
(1830)
27. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: The Castle
ofChillon (1835)
VIII. The Gothic and Surreal
1. WILLIAM BLAKE: Fair Elenor (Poetical
Sketches 1783)
2. HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS: Part of an Irregular
Fragment Found in a
Dark Passage of the Tower (1786)
3. ROBERT BURNS: Tam O'Shanter (late 1790;
publ. 1791)
4. GOTTFRIED BORGER (trans. WILLIAM
TAYLOR, 1796):
(i) Lenora
(ii) The Lass of Fair Wone
5. MATTHEW 'MONK' LEWIS: Alonzo the Brave
and the Fair Imogine
(1796)
6. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Thom (March
1798; publ. Lyrical
Ballads)
7. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Christabel,
Part I (April 1798; publ.
1816)
8. ROBERT SOUTHEY: The Old Woman of
Berkeley (1799)
9. MARY ROBINSON: The Haunted Beach (1800)
10. WALTER SCOTT: The Lay of the Last Minstrel
(Canto II, stanzas 1-
23)1805
11. JAMES HOGG: The Wife ofCrowle (1807)
12. GEORGE CRABBE: Peter Grimes (1810)
13. LORD BYRON: Darkness (1816)
14. JOHN KEATS: La Belle Dame Sans Merci (21
April 1819; Indicator,
May 1820)
15. JOHN CLARE: Superstition's Dream (lines 13-
68) 1822
16. THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES: The Bride's
Tragedy II, scene iv, lines
1-64(1822)
17. THOMAS CAMPBELL: The Last Man (1823)
18. THOMAS HOOD: The Last Man (1826; publ.
1829)
IX. Romantic Comedy and Satire
1. WILLIAM BLAKE: Songs from An Island in the Moon
(c. 1784; from MS 1907)
(i) Old Corruption
(ii) Lo, the Bat
(iii) Village Cricket
2. ROBERT BURNS: Holy Willie's Prayer (1786)
3. MARY ROBINSON: January, 1795 (publ.
1796)
4. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Ballad Comedies,
Spring 1798:
(i) The Idiot Boy (late March; publ. Lyrical
Ballads)
(ii) from Peter Bell (late April; publ. 1819)
(iii) We Are Seven (late April/early May; publ.
Lyrical Ballads)
5. JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE AND GEORGE
CANNING: from The Rovers
(June 1798)
6. ROBERT SOUTHEY AND SAMUEL TAYLOR
COLERIDGE: The Devil's Thoughts (1799)
7. GEORGE CRABBE: Procrastination (1812)
8. JAMES SMITH: The Baby's Debut, by W. W.
(Rejected Addresses 1812)
9. JAMES HOGG: from The Poetic Mirror (1816)
(i) James Rigg (lines 1-42)
(ii) Isabelle
10. JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE: 'Irrational Gigantic
Anger' (Whistlecraft, Canto III, stanzas 1-7,15-19)
1818
11. JOHN KEATS: Old Meg She Was a Gypsy (2
July 1818; publ. 1838)
12. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Sin (Peter Bell the
Third IV, 1-65) 1819; publ. 1839
13. LORD BYRON: Juan and Julia (Don Juan I,
stanzas 54-117,133-87)
1819
14. ROBERT SOUTHEY: The Cataract ofLodore
(1823)
15. THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK: The Legend of
Manor Hall (c. 1824; publ.
1837)
16. THOMAS HOOD: Mary's Ghost (1826)
17. CAROLINE NORTON: First Love (1830)
X. Protest and Politics
1. WILLIAM COWPER: Sweet Meat Has Sour
Sauce (1788)
2. HANNAH MORE: from Slavery: A Poem (1788)
3. ANN YEARSLEY: Death of Luco (from On the
Inhumanity of the Slave Trade) 1788
4. ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD: On the Expected
General Rising of the
French Nation in 1792 (publ. 1825)
5. HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS: France 1792 (from
To Dr Moore) 1792
6. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Female
Vagrant, stanzas 33-6, 40-43
(1793-4; publ. Lyrical Ballads 1798)
7. ROBERT BURNS: For A' That and A' That
(1795)
8. ROBERT SOUTHEY: Poems on the Slave
Trade (April 1798; publ.
1799)
9. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE:
(i) France: An Ode (1798)
(ii) 'Dainty Terms for Fratricide' (Fears in
Solitude, 90-93, 101-20)1798
10. ROBERT SOUTHEY: The Battle of Blenheim
(1799)
11. ROBERT BLOOMFIELD: The Farmer's Boy
(horn Summer) 1801
12. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH:
I. Sonnets 1802 (publ. 1807)
(i) On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic
(ii) To Toussaint L'Ouverture
(iii) We Had a Fellow-Passenger
II. Prelude Scenes from the French Revolution
(1804; publ. 1850/ from MS 1926)
(i) 'Golden Hours': Calais and the Rhone, July
1790 (VI, 352-69, 380-413)
(ii) A Tourist's Unconcern: Paris, Dec. 1791 (IX,
40-71)
(iii) Among Royalists: Blois, spring 1792 (IX, 127
-68)
(iv) 'A Patriot': Blois, early summer 1792 (IX, 294
-9, 511-34)
(v) 'Sleep No More': Paris, Oct. 1792 (X, 24-82)
(vi) War and Alienation: London and Wales,
1793-4 (X, 201-74)
(vii) 'Eternal Justice': Morecambe Sands, Aug.
1794 (X, 466-76, 515-56)
13. JOHN CLARE:
(i) Helpstone (lines 95-134) c. 1813; publ. 1820
(ii) Lamentations of Round-Oak Waters (lines
157-96) 1818; publ. 1821
14. JAMES LEIGH HUNT: from The St James's
Phenomenon
(1814)
15. LORD BYRON: Napoleon's Farewell (1814;
publ. 1816)
16. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY:
(i) The Mask of Anarchy (Sept. 1819; publ.
1832)
(ii) England in 1819 (23 Dec.; publ. 1839)
17. LORD BYRON: from The Vision of Judgment
(1822)
18. THOMAS HOOD: Ode to H. Bodkin, Esq.,
Secretary to the Society for
the Suppression of Mendicity (1824)
19. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: The Factory
(1835)
20. CAROLINE NORTON: A Voice from the
Factories (stanzas 34-48)
1836
XI. Poets in Relationship
1. WILLIAM BLAKE: and Catherine Blake, I Love the
Jocund Dance (.Poetical Sketches 1783)
2. ROBERT BURNS:
(i) and Elizabeth Paton, A Poet's Welcome to his
Love-begotten Daughter (May 1785; publ. 1801)
(ii) and Agnes Craif McLehose, Ae Fond Kiss (Dec.
1787; publ. 1792)
(111) and Jean Armour (by now Mrs Burns), I Love My
Jean (April 1788; publ. 1790)
(iv) and Mary Campbell, Highland Mary (Nov. 1792;
publ. 1799)
3. CHARLOTTE SMITH: TO My Children (1788)
4. MARY ROBINSON: and General Sir Banastre
Tarleton, Written Between Dover and Calais, July 1792
(1793)
5. WILLIAM COWPER: and Mary Unwin, To Mary
(autumn 1793; publ. 1803)
6. CHARLES LAMB: TO Mary Ann Lamb (1795;
publ. 1797)
7. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE:
(i) Composed on a Journey Homeward, the
Author Having Received
Intelligence of the Birth of a Son, September 20, VJQ6
(1797)
(ii) Letter to Sara Hutchinson: 4 April 1802,
Sunday Evening (from
MS 1936)
8. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH!
(I) and Dorothy Wordsworth
(i) To My Sister (March 1798; publ. Lyrical
Ballads 1798)
(ii) from Home at Grasmere (March 1800; publ.
from MS 1888)
(iii) To a Butterfly ('Stay near me') spring 1802;
publ. 1807
(iv) The Sparrow's Nest (spring 1802; publ. 1807)
(v) 'Child of My Parents' (1805 Prelude XIII 210-
46) publ. 1850/ from MS 1926
(II) and Caroline (Vallon) Wordsworth, It is a
Beauteous Evening (Aug. 1802; publ. 1807)
(ill) and Mary Wordsworth (nee Hutchinson)
(i) She Was a Phantom of Delight (Feb. 1804;
publ. 1807)
(ii) 'Another Maid There Was' (1805 Prelude VI
233-9, XI 215- гг) publ. 1850/from MS 1926
(iv) and Catharine Wordsworth, Surprised by Joy (c.
1813-14; publ. 1815)
9. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY:
(I) and Harriet Shelley (nee Westbrook), To
Harriet (1812)
(II) and Mary Shelley (nee Godwin), from
Dedication to Laon and Cythna 1-46, 91-126 (1817)
(III) and Teresa Viviani, Epipsychidion (1821) 714
(xv) and Jane Williams
(i) To Jane with a Guitar (June 1822; publ.
1832)
(ii) To Jane: The Stars Were Twinkling (June
1822; publ. 1832)
10. LORD BYRON:
(I) and Lady Frances Webster, When We Two
Parted (Aug.-Sept. 1815; publ. 1816)
(II) and Lady Byron, Fare Thee Well (1816) (in)
and Augusta Leigh
(i) Stanzas to Augusta ('When all around') 1816
(ii) Stanzas to Augusta ('Though the day of my
destiny') 1816
(iv) and the Countess Guiccioli, Stanzas to the
River Po (April 1819; publ. 1824)
(v) and Loukas Chalandritsanos, I Watched Thee
(April 1824; from MS 1887)
11. JOHN KEATS: and Fanny Brawne
(i) The Day Is Gone (10 Oct. 1819; publ. 1838)
(ii) I Cry Your Mercy (mid Oct. 1819; publ. 1848)
(iii) Ode to Fanny (Feb. 1820; publ. 1848)
12. JOHN CLARE: and Mary Joyce
(i) Song ('Mary leave thy lowly cot') 1819-20;
publ. 1821
(ii) My Mary (1820)
(iii) Ballad ('Mary, fate lent me a moment') 1819-
20; publ. 1821
13. FELICIA HEMANS: The Dreaming Child (1830)
Ц. CAROLINE NORTON:
(I) and her brother, Recollections (1830)
(II) and her children, The Mother's Heart (1836)
15. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: To My Brother (1835)
XII. On Poets and Poetry
1. MARY SCOTT: on Anna Laetida Barbauld (nee
Aikin), from The Female Advocate (1774)
2. ROBERT BURNS:
(i) Epistle to J. Lapraik, An Old Scotch Bard (April
1785; publ. 1786)
(ii) I Am a Bard (c. autumn 1785; publ. 1799)
3. HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS: Sonnet on Reading
'The Mountain Daisy'
by Bums (c. 1787; publ. 1791)
4. JOANNA BAILLIE: An Address to the Muses
(lines 49-102) 1790
5. WILLIAM BLAKE:
(i) Preface to Europe, A Prophecy (engraved 1794) 764
(ii) 'I Come In Self-Annihilation' (Milton plate 41,
2-28) c. 1804, engraved c. 1808-10
(iii) 'Trembling I Sit' (Jerusalem, plate 5,16-20) c.
1804-7; engraved c. 1818
6. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Nehemiah
Higginbottom Sonnets (Nov. 1797)
(i) 'Pensive at Eve'
(ii) 'Oh I Do Love Thee'
(iii) 'And This Reft House'
7. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Thoughts on
Poetic Imagination, 1798-1806
(i) from the Prologue to Peter Bell (April 1798;
publ. 1819)
(ii) The Glad Preamble (c. 18 Nov. 1799; publ.
Prelude 1850/from MS 1926)
(iii) 'A Dedicated Spirit' (1805 Prelude IV 316-45;
publ. 1850/from MS 1926)
(iv) Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of
Peele Castle in a Storm (May-June 1806; publ. 1807)
8. ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD: To Mr Coleridge
(1799)
9. MARY ROBINSON:
(i) Ode Inscribed to the Infant Son ofS. T.
Coleridge, Esq., Bom 14
Sept 1800 (lines 67-102) Sept 1800; publ. 1806
(ii) To the Poet Coleridge (Oct. 1800; publ.
1806)
10. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Portraits of
Coleridge
(i) from The Castle of Indolence Stanzas (May
1802; publ. 1807)
(ii) 'A Mind Debarred' (1805 Prelude VI, 239-329)
1804; publ. 1850/ from MS 1926
(iii) A Complaint (c. Dec. 1806; publ. 1807)
11. MARY TIGHE: 'Dreams of Delight, Farewell'
(Psyche, concluding stanzas) 1802-3; publ. 1805
12. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: To William
Wordsworth (Jan. 1807; publ. 1817)
13. LORD BYRON: English Bards and Scotch
Reviewers (lines 1-38, 85- 148)1809
14. JAMES LEIGH HUNT: Feast of the Poets (lines
204-41) 1811; expanded 1814
15. LORD BYRON: 'Tis to Create' (Childe Harold
III, stanzas 3-6) April
1816; publ. 1817
16. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: To Wordsworth
(1816)
17. JOHN SEATS:
(i) Sleep and Poetry (lines 96-162) 1817
(ii) The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream (Canto I, lines
1-27, 87-294) July-Sept. 1819; 1856
18. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY:
(i) Julian and Maddalo: A Conversation (lines 1-
67) Oct. 1818; publ.
1824
(ii) Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John
Keats (stanzas 1-8, 39-58)1822
19. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: Sappho's Song
(1824)
20. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Work Without
Hope (21 Feb. 1825;
publ. 1828)
21. THOMAS HOOD: False Poets and True (1827)
22. FELICIA HEMANS:
(i) The Grave of a Poetess (Records of Woman
1828)
(ii) Properzia Rossi (Records of Woman 1828)
(iii) To Wordsworth (1828)
23. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Extempore
Effusion Upon the Death of
James Hogg (1835)
24. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON:
(i) Felicia Hemans (c. 1835; publ. 1838)
(ii) The Poet's Lot (c. 1837; publ. 1841)
NOTES
SHORT BIOGRAPHIES
INDEX OF POETS AND THEIR WORKS
INDEX OF TITLES
INDEX OF FIRST LINES