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, nee Aikin (1743--1825).
The Rights of Woman.
Inscription for an Ice-House.
To Mr. S. T. Coleridge.
Charlotte Smith, nee Turner (1749--1806).
Sonnet 1 ['The partial Muse, has from my earliest hours'].
Sonnet VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale.
Sonnet XII. Written on the Sea Shore. ? October, 1784.
Sonnet XXX. To the River Arun.
Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy.
Sonnet XXXIX. To Night.
Sonnet XLIV. 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, nee 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.
John Keats (1795--1821).
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).
Lines Written under a Picture of a Girl Burning a
Love-Letter.
A Child Screening a Dove from a Hawk. By Stewardson.
Lines of Life.
Felicia Hemans.
Index of Titles and First Lines