Table Of Contents:

List of Illustrations xxvi

List of plates xxvii
Abbreviations xxviii
Introduction xxx
Editorial Principles xliii
Acknowledgements xlv
A Romantic Timeline 1770--1851 xlviii

Richard Price (1723--1791) 3(3)

From A Discourse on the Love of our Country (1789)

[On Representation] 4(1)

[Prospects for Reform] 5(1)

Thomas Warton (1728--1790) 6(1)

From Poems (1777)

Sonnet IX. To the River Lodon 7(1)

Edmund Burke (1729--1797) 7(9)

From A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)

Obscurity 9(1)

From Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

[History will record . . .] 10(1)

[The age of chivalry is gone] 11(2)

[On Englishness] 13(1)

[Society is a Contract] 14(2)

William Cowper (1731--1800) 16(7)

From The Task (1785)

[Crazy Kate] (Book I) 18(1)

[On Slavery] (Book II) 18(2)

[The Winter Evening] (Book IV) 20(1)

From Works (1835--7)

Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce, or The Slave Trader in the Dumps 21(2)

Thomas Paine (1737--1809) 23(4)

From Common Sense (1776)

Of the Origin and Design of Government in General 24(1)

From The Rights of Man Part I (1791)

[Freedom of Posterity] 24(1)

[On Revolution] 25(1)

From The Rights of Man Part II (1792)

[Republicanism] 26(1)

Anna Seward (1742--1809) 27(4)

Sonnet written from an Eastern Apartment in the Bishop's Palace at Lichfield 28(1)

From Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems (1796)

To Time Past. Written Dec. 1772 28(1)

From Gentleman's Magazine (1786)

Advice to Mrs Smith. A Sonnet 29(1)

From Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems (1796)

Eyam 30(1)

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (nee Aikin) (1743--1825) 31(21)

From Poems (1773)

A Summer Evening's Meditation 35(3)

From Poems (1792)

Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade 38(3)

From Works (1825)

The Rights of Woman 41(1)

From The Monthly Magazine (1799)

To Mr Coleridge 42(2)

Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem (1812) 44(8)

Hannah More (1745--1833) 52(25)

From Sacred Dramas: Chiefly Intended for Young Persons: The Subjects Taken from the Bible. To which is Added, Sensibility, A Poem (1782)

Sensibility: A Poetical Epistle to the Hon. Mrs Boscawen 56(10)

Slavery: A Poem (1788) 66(7)

Cheap Repository

The Story of Sinful Sally. Told by Herself (1796) 73(4)

Charlotte Smith (nee Turner) (1749--1806) 77(65)

Elegiac Sonnets: The Third Edition. With Twenty Additional Sonnets (1786) 83(17)

To William Hayley, Esq 83(1)

Preface to the First Edition 84(1)

Preface to the Third Edition 84(1)

Sonnet I 84(1)

Sonnet II. Written at the Close of Spring 85(1)

Sonnet III. To a Nightingale 85(1)

Sonnet IV. To the Moon 86(1)

Sonnet V. To the South Downs 86(1)

Sonnet VI. To Hope 86(1)

Sonnet VII. On the Departure of the Nightingale 87(1)

Sonnet VIII. To Spring 87(1)

Sonnet IX. 88(1)

Sonnet X. To Mrs G. 88(1)

Sonnet XI. To Sleep 89(1)

Sonnet XII. Written on the Seashore. October 1784 89(1)

Sonnet XIII. From Petrarch 90(1)

Sonnet XIV. From Petrarch 90(1)

Sonnet XV. From Petrarch 90(1)

Sonnet XVI. From Petrarch 91(1)

Sonnet XVII. From the Thirteenth Cantata of Metastasio 91(1)

Sonnet XVIII. To the Earl of Egremont 92(1)

Sonnet XIX. To Mr Hayley. On Receiving some Elegant Lines from Him 92(1)

Sonnet XX. To the Countess of Abergavenny. Written on the Anniversary of her Marriage 93(1)

Sonnet XXI. Supposed to be Written by Werther 93(1)

Sonnet XXII. By the Same. To Solitude 94(1)

Sonnet XXIII. By the Same. To the North Star 94(1)

Sonnet XXIV. By the Same 94(1)

Sonnet XXV. By the Same. Just before his Death 95(1)

Sonnet XXVI. To the River Arun 95(1)

Sonnet XXVII 96(1)

Sonnet XXVIII. To Friendship 96(1)

Sonnet XXIX. To Miss C---. On being Desired to Attempt Writing a Comedy 97(1)

Sonnet XXX. To the River Arun 97(1)

Sonnet XXXI. Written on Farm Wood, South Downs, in May 1784 98(1)

Sonnet XXXII. To Melancholy. Written on the Banks of the Arun, October 1785 98(1)

Sonnet XXXIII. To the Naiad of the Arun 98(1)

Sonnet XXXIV. To a Friend 99(1)

Sonnet XXXV. To Fortitude 99(1)

Sonnet XXXVI 100(1)

The Emigrants: A Poem in Two Books (1793) 100(22)

Dedication: To William Cowper, Esq. 100(2)

Book I 102(9)

Book II 111(11)

From Beachy Head: with Other Poems (1807)

Beachy Head 122(20)

George Crabbe (1754--1832) 142(9)

From The Borough (1810) Letter XXII: The Poor of the Barough

Peter Grimes 143(8)

William Godwin (1756--1836) 151(4)

From Political Justice (2 vols, 1793)

[On Property] 153(1)

[Love of Justice] 153(1)

[On Marriage] 154(1)

Ann Yearsley (nee Cromartie) (1756--1806) 155(14)

From Poems on various subjects (1787)

Addressed to Sensibility 158(2)

A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade (1788) 160(9)

William Blake (1757--1827) 169(77)

All Religions Are One (composed c.1788) 174(1)

There is no Natural Religion (composed c.1788) 175(1)

The Book of Thel (1789) 176(3)

Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789--94)

Songs of Innocence (1789) 179(12)

Introduction 179(1)

The Shepherd 180(1)

The Echoing Green 180(1)

The Lamb 181(1)

The Little Black Boy 181(1)

The Blossom 182(1)

The Chimney Sweeper 183(1)

The Little Boy Lost 183(1)

The Little Boy Found 184(1)

Laughing Song 184(1)

A Cradle Song 184(1)

The Divine Image 185(1)

Holy Thursday 186(1)

Night 186(1)

Spring 187(1)

Nurse's Song 188(1)

Infant Joy 189(1)

A Dream 189(1)

On Another's Sorrow 190(1)

Songs of Experience (1794) 191(15)

Introduction 191(1)

Earth's Answer 191(1)

The Clod and the Pebble 192(1)

Holy Thursday 192(1)

The Little Girl Lost 193(1)

The Little Girl Found 194(1)

The Chimney Sweeper 195(1)

Nurse's Song 196(1)

The Sick Rose 196(1)

The Fly 196(1)

The Angel 197(1)

The Tyger 197(1)

My Pretty Rose-Tree 198(1)

Ah, Sunflower! 198(1)

The Lily 198(1)

The Garden of Love 199(1)

The Little Vagabond 199(1)

London 199(2)

The Human Abstract 201(1)

Infant Sorrow 202(1)

A Poison Tree 202(1)

A Little Boy Lost 202(1)

A Little Girl Lost 203(1)

To Tirzah 204(1)

The Schoolboy 205(1)

The Voice of the Ancient Bard 205(1)

A Divine Image 206(1)

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) 206(17)

The Argument 206(1)

The Voice of the Devil 207(1)

A Memorable Fancy [The Five Senses] 208(1)

Proverbs of Hell 209(2)

A Memorable Fancy [Isaiah and Ezekiel] 211(1)

A Memorable Fancy [A Printing-House in Hell] 212(1)

A Memorable Fancy [The Vanity of Angels] 213(2)

A Memorable Fancy [A Devil, My Friend] 215(1)

A Song of Liberty 216(1)

Chorus 217(1)

Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) 217(1)

The Argument 217(1)

Visions 218(5)

The First Book of Urizen (1794) 223(17)

Preludium to the First Book of Urizen 223(1)

Chapter I 224(1)

Chapter II 225(1)

Chapter III 226(3)

Chapter IVa 229(1)

Chapter IVb 229(3)

Chapter V 232(2)

Chapter VI 234(1)

Chapter VII 235(2)

Chapter VIII 237(1)

Chapter IX 238(2)

Letter from William Blake to the Revd Dr Trusler, 23 August 1799 (extract) 240(1)

From The Pickering Manuscript (composed 1800--4)

The Mental Traveller 241(3)

The Crystal Cabinet 244(1)

From Milton (composed 1803--8)

[And did those feet in ancient time] 245(1)

Mary Robinson (nee Darby) (1758--1800) 246(14)

From The Wild Wreath (1804)

A London Summer Morning 249(1)

From Lyrical Tales (1800)

The Haunted Beach 250(2)

From The Poetical Works of the Late Mrs Robinson (1806)

Ode Inscribed to the Infant Son of S. T. Coleridge, Esq. Born 14 September 1800 at Keswick in Cumberland. 252(2)

From Memoirs of the Late Mrs Robinson (1801)

Mrs Robinson to the Poet Coleridge 254(2)

From The Wild Wreath (1804)

The Savage of Aveyron 256(4)

Robert Burns (1759--1796) 260(16)

From Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786)

Epistle to J. L*****k, an old Scotch bard, 1 April 1785 262(4)

Man was Made to Mourn, A Dirge 266(2)

To a Mouse, on turning her up in her nest, with the plough, November 1785 268(2)

From Francis Grose, The Antiquities of Scotland (1791)

Tam o' Shanter. A Tale 270(6)

Song ['Oh my love's like the red, red rose'] 276(1)

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759--1797) 276(9)

From A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)

[On Poverty] 278(1)

From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

Introduction 279(3)

[On the Lack of Learning] 282(1)

[A Revolution in Female Manners] 283(1)

[On State Education] 283(2)

Helen Maria Williams (1762--1827) 285(22)

From Poems (1786)

Part of an Irregular Fragment, found in a Dark Passage of the Tower 290(6)

From Letters written in France in the summer of 1790 (1790)

[A Visit to the Bastille] 296(1)

[On Revolution] 297(1)

[Retrospect from England] 298(1)

From Julia, A Novel (1790)

The Bastille, A Vision 299(2)

A Farewell, for Two Years, to England. A Poem (1791) 301(5)

From Letters containing a Sketch of the Politics of France (1795)

[Madame Roland] 306(1)

Joanna Baillie (1762--1851) 307(8)

From A Series of Plays (1798)

Introductory Discourse (extracts) 308(7)

William Lisle Bowles (1762--1851) 315(1)

From Fourteen Sonnets (1789)

Sonnet VIII. To the River Itchin, near Winton 315(1)

John Thelwall (1764--1834) 316(11)

From PoemsWritten in Close Confinement in the Tower and Newgate upon a Charge of Treason (1795)

Stanzas on hearing for certainty that we were to be tried for high treason 318(1)

From The Tribune (1795)

Dangerous tendency of the attempt to suppress political discussion 319(1)

Civic oration on the anniversary of the acquittal of the lecturer [5 December], being a vindication of the principles, and a review of the conduct, that placed him at the bar of the Old Bailey. Delivered Wednesday 9 December 1795 (extracts) 320(1)

Letter from John Thelwall to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 10 May 1796 (extract) 321(1)

From Poems written Chiefly in Retirement (1801)

Lines written at Bridgwater in Somersetshire, on 27 July 1797, during a long excursion in quest of a peaceful retreat 322(5)

William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798) 327(84)

Contents of Lyrical Ballads (1798) are presented in the order in which they appeared when first published in volume form, not that of composition as elsewhere in this volume.

Advertisement (Wordsworth) 330(2)

The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in seven parts (Coleridge) 332(17)

The Foster-Mother's Tale: A Dramatic Fragment (Coleridge) 349(3)

Lines left upon a seat in a Yew-Tree which stands near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a desolate part of the shore, yet commanding a beautiful prospect (Wordsworth) 352(1)

The Nightingale; A Conversational Poem, written in April 1798 (Coleridge) 353(3)

The Female Vagrant (Wordsworth) 356(7)

Goody Blake and Harry Gill: A True Story (Wordsworth) 363(3)

Lines written at a small distance from my house, and sent by my little boy to the person to whom they are addressed (Wordsworth) 366(2)

Simon Lee, the old Huntsman, with an incident in which he was concerned (Wordsworth) 368(2)

Anecdote for Fathers, showing how the art of lying may be taught (Wordsworth) 370(2)

We are seven (Wordsworth) 372(2)

Lines written in early spring (Wordsworth) 374(1)

The Thorn (Wordsworth) 375(7)

The Last of the Flock (Wordsworth) 382(2)

The Dungeon (Coleridge) 384(1)

The Mad Mother (Wordsworth) 385(3)

The Idiot Boy (Wordsworth) 388(11)

Lines written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening (Wordsworth) 399(1)

Expostulation and Reply (Wordsworth) 400(1)

The Tables Turned: an evening scene, on the same subject (Wordsworth) 401(1)

Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch (Wordsworth) 402(1)

The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman (Wordsworth) 403(2)

The Convict (Wordsworth) 405(2)

Lines written a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, 13 July 1798 (Wordsworth) 407(4)

William Wordsworth (1770--1850) 411(173)

A Night-Piece 417(1)

The Discharged Soldier 418(4)

The Ruined Cottage 422(13)

First Part 422(5)

Second Part 427(8)

The Pedlar 435(9)

[Not useless do I deem] 444(3)

[Away, away
it is the air] 447(1)

[The Two-Part Prelude] 448(25)

First Part 448(12)

Second Part 460(13)

[There is an active principle] (extract) 473(1)

From Lyrical Ballads (1800)

[There was a boy] 474(1)

Nutting 475(1)

[Strange fits of passion I have known] 476(1)

Song ('She dwelt among th' untrodden ways') 477(1)

[A slumber did my spirit seal] 478(1)

[Three years she grew in sun and shower] 478(1)

[The Prelude: Glad Preamble] 479(2)

[Prospectus to `The Recluse'] 481(2)

From Lyrical Ballads (1800)

The Brothers: A Pastoral Poem 483(12)

Preface to Lyrical Ballads 495(12)

Note to `The Thorn' 507(2)

Note to Coleridge's `The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' 509(1)

Michael: A Pastoral Poem 510(12)

From Poems in Two Volumes (1807)

[I travelled among unknown men] 522(1)

From Lyrical Ballads (1802)

Appendix to the Preface to Lyrical Ballads: On Poetic Diction (extracts) 522(3)

Preface to Lyrical Ballads (extracts from revised text) 525(2)

From Poems in Two Volumes (1807)

To H.C., Six Years Old 527(1)

The Rainbow 528(1)

[These chairs they have no words to utter] 528(1)

From Poems in Two Volumes (1807)

Resolution and Independence 529(4)

[I grieved for Buonaparte] 533(1)

[The world is too much with us] 534(1)

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802 534(1)

To Toussaint L'Ouverture 535(1)

[It is a beauteous evening, calm and free] 536(1)

1 September 1802 536(1)

London 1802 537(1)

[Great men have been among us] 537(1)

Ode (from 1815: Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood) 538(5)

From The Five-Book Prelude 543(3)

[The Infant Prodigy] (from Book IV) 543(3)

From Poems (1815)

Daffodils ('I wandered lonely as a cloud') 546(1)

From Poems in Two Volumes (1807)

Stepping Westward 547(1)

The Solitary Reaper 548(1)

From The Thirteen-Book Prelude

[The Arab Dream] (from Book V) 549(4)

[Crossing the Alps] (from Book VI) 553(3)

[The London Beggar] (from Book VII) 556(1)

[London and the Den of Yordas] (from Book VIII) 556(2)

[Paris, December 1791] (from Book IX) 558(1)

[Blois, Spring 1792] (from Book IX) 559(1)

[Beaupuy] (from Book IX) 560(3)

[Godwinism] (from Book X) 563(1)

[Confusion and Recovery; Racedown, Spring 1796] (from Book X) 564(2)

[The Climbing of Snowdon] (from Book XIII) 566(4)

From Poems in Two Volumes (1807)

Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont 570(2)

A Complaint 572(1)

Star Gazers 573(1)

[St Paul's] 574(1)

From Poems (1815)

Surprised by joy
impatient as the wind 575(1)

From Poems (1815)

Preface (extract) 575(3)

From The River Duddon (1820)

Conclusion ('I thought of thee, my partner and my guide') 578(1)

From The Fourteen-Book Prelude (1850), Book VII (extract)

[Genius of Burke!] 579(1)

From Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems (1835)

Airey-Force Valley 580(1)

From Poetical Works (1836)

Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg 580(2)

From The Fenwick Notes (1843)

[On the `Ode'] (extract) 582(1)

[On `We are Seven'] (extract) 583(1)

Dorothy Wordsworth (1771--1855) 584(8)

From The Grasmere Journals

Wednesday 3 September 1800 585(1)

Friday 3 October 1800 (extract) 586(1)

Thursday 15 April 1802 586(1)

Thursday 29 April 1802 587(1)

4 October 1802 588(1)

A Cottage in Grasmere Vale 588(1)

After-recollection at sight of the same cottage 589(1)

A Sketch 589(1)

Thoughts on my Sickbed 590(2)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834) 592(122)

From Sonnets from Various Authors (1796)

Sonnet V. To the River Otter 598(1)

Letter from S. T. Coleridge to George Dyer, 10 March 1795 (extract) 599(1)

From Poems on Various Subjects (1796)

Effusion XXXV. Composed 20 August 1795, at Clevedon, Somersetshire parallel text 600(1)

From Poetical Works (1834)

The Eolian Harp. Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire (1834) parallel text 601(5)

From Poems (1797)

Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement 606(2)

Religious Musings (extract) 608(2)

Letter from S. T. Coleridge to John Thelwall, 19 November 1796 (extract) 610(2)

Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Robert Southey, 17 July 1797 (extract) 612(1)

(including early version of This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison) parallel text 613(1)

From Poetical Works (1834)

This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison (1834) parallel text 613(5)

Letter from S. T. Coleridge to John Thelwall, 14 October 1797 (extract) 618(1)

Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 16 October 1797 (extract) 618(1)

From Christabel; Kubla Khan: A Vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816)

Of the Fragment of `Kubla Khan' 619(1)

[Kubla Khan] (MS) parallel text 620(1)

Kubla Khan (1816) parallel text 621(3)

From Fears in Solitude, written in 1798. during an alarm of an invasion; to which are added France: an Ode; and Frost at Midnight (1798) 624(1)

From Poetical Works (1834) 624(15)

Frost at Midnight (1834) parallel text 625(5)

France: An Ode 630(3)

Fears in Solitude. Written April 1798, During the Alarms of an Invasion 633(6)

From Christabel; Kubla Khan: a vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816)

Christabel 639(1)

Preface 639(1)

Part I 640(6)

The Conclusion to Part I 646(1)

Part II 647(8)

The Conclusion to Part II 655(1)

Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 6 April 1799 (extract) 656(1)

From The Annual Anthology (1800)

Lines Written in the Album at Elbingerode, in the Hartz Forest 657(1)

The Day-Dream 658(1)

From The Morning Post (6 September 1802)

The Picture; or, The Lover's Resolution 659(4)

A Letter to Sara Hutchinson, 4 April 1802. Sunday Evening. 663(9)

From Poetical Works (1828)

A Day-Dream 672(1)

From Sibylline Leaves (1817)

Dejection: An Ode 673(4)

From The Morning Post (11 September 1802)

Chamouny; the Hour Before Sunrise. A Hymn 677(3)

Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Robert Southey, 11 September 1803 (extract) (including early version of The Pains of Sleep) parallel text 680(1)

From Christabel; Kubla Khan: a vision; The Pains of Sleep (1816)

The Pains of Sleep (1816) parallel text 681(3)

From The Morning Post (11 October 1802)

Epigram on Spots in the Sun, from Wernicke 684(1)

Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 14 October 1803 (extract) 684(1)

Letter from S. T. Coleridge to Richard Sharp, 15 January 1804 (extract) 685(1)

To William Wordsworth. Lines composed, for the greater part, on the night on which he finished the recitation of his poem in Thirteen Books, concerning the growth and history of his own mind, January 1807, Coleorton, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch 686(3)

Letter from S. T. Coleridge to William Wordsworth, 30 May 1815 (extract) 689(2)

From Biographia Literaria (1817)

Chapter 13 (extract) 691(1)

Chapter 14 (extracts) 692(2)

From Sibylline Leaves (1817)

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In seven parts. 694(17)

From Poetical Works (1829)

Constancy to an Ideal Object 711(1)

From Table Talk (edited from MS)

[On `The Ancient Mariner'] 712(1)

[The True Way for a Poet] 712(1)

[On `The Recluse'] 712(1)

[Keats] 713(1)

Francis, Lord Jeffrey (1773--1850) 714(6)

From Edinburgh Review (November 1814)

Review of William Wordsworth, `The Excursion' (extracts) 715(5)

Robert Southey (1774--1843) 720(15)

From The Monthly Magazine (October 1797)

Hannah, A Plaintive Tale 724(1)

From The Morning Post (30 June 1798)

The Idiot 725(2)

From The Morning Post (9 August 1798)

The Battle of Blenheim 727(2)

From The Morning Post (26 September 1798)

Night 729(1)

From Critical Review (October 1798)

Review of William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, `Lyrical Ballads' (1798) 730(2)

From Poems (1799)

The Sailor who had Served in the Slave-Trade 732(3)

Charles Lamb (1775--1834) 735(18)

From Blank Verse by Charles Lloyd and Charles Lamb (1798)

The Old Familiar Faces 739(1)

From The Annual Anthology (1799)

Living without God in the World 740(1)

Letter from Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 30 January 1801 (extract) 741(1)

Letter from Charles Lamb to John Taylor, 30 June 1821 (extract) 742(1)

From Elia (1823)

Imperfect Sympathies 742(6)

Witches, and Other Night-Fears 748(5)

William Hazlitt (1778--1830) 753(39)

From The Round Table (1817)

On Gusto 756(3)

From The New Monthly Magazine (February 1822)

The Fight 759(12)

From The Liberal (April 1823)

My First Acquaintance with Poets 771(13)

From The Spirit of the Age (1825)

Mr Coleridge 784(8)

James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784--1859) 792(13)

From The Examiner (14 May 1815)

To Hampstead 795(1)

From The Story of Rimini, A Poem (1816)

Canto III. The Fatal Passion (extract) 796(5)

From The Examiner (21 September 1817)

On the Grasshopper and Cricket 801(1)

From Foliage (1818)

To Percy Shelley, on the degrading notions of deity 802(1)

To the Same 802(1)

To John Keats 803(1)

From The Indicator (1820)

A Now, Descriptive of a Hot Day 803(2)

Thomas De Quincey (1785--1859) 805(28)

From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)

[Ann of Oxford Street] 810(2)

[The Malay] 812(2)

[The Pains of Opium] 814(2)

[The Pains of Opium: Visions of Piranesi] 816(1)

[Oriental Dreams] 816(2)

[Easter Sunday] 818(2)

From London Magazine (October 1823)

On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth 820(3)

From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine (February 1839)

[On Wordsworth's `There was a boy'] 823(2)

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (March 1845)

Suspiria de Profundis: The Affliction of Childhood (extract) 825(5)

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (June 1845)

Suspiria de Profundis: The Palimpsest (extract) 830(1)

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (July 1845)

Suspiria de Profundis: Finale to Part I. Savannah-la-Mar 831(2)

Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786--1846) 833(4)

[The Immortal Dinner] 834(3)

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788--1824) 837(202)

From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt (1812)

Written Beneath a Picture 846(1)

From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt (2nd edn, 1812)

Stanzas 846(2)

From Hebrew Melodies (1815)

She Walks in Beauty 848(1)

From Poems (1816)

When we two parted 849(1)

Fare Thee Well! 850(2)

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto the Third (1816) 852(35)

From The Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems (1816)

Prometheus 887(1)

Stanzas to Augusta 888(2)

Epistle to Augusta 890(4)

From The Prisoner of Chillon and Other Poems (1816)

Darkness 894(2)

Manfred, A Dramatic Poem (1817) 896(36)

Dramatis Personae 896(1)

Act I 896(10)

Act II 906(15)

Act III 921(11)

Letter from Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 February 1817 (extract) (including `So we'll go no more a-roving') 932(1)

Don Juan (1819)

Dedication 933(5)

Canto I 938(50)

Canto II 988(48)

To the Po. 2 June 1819 1036(1)

Letter from Lord Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1819 (extract) 1037(1)

Messalonghi, 22 January 1824. On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year 1037(2)

Richard Woodhouse, Jr (1788--1834) 1039(4)

Letter from Richard Woodhouse to John Taylor, c.27 October 1818 (extract) 1040(1)

Letter from Richard Woodhouse to John Taylor, 19 September 1819 (extract) 1041(2)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822) 1043(180)

From Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude, and Other Poems (1816)

To Wordsworth 1052(1)

Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude 1053(18)

From The Examiner (19 January 1817)

Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 1071(2)

Journal-Letter from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock, 22 July to 2 August 1816 (extract) 1073(2)

From History of a Six Weeks' Tour Through a Part of France, Switzerland, Germany and Holland by Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley (1817)

Mont Blanc. Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni 1075(4)

From The Examiner (11 January 1818)

Ozymandias 1079(1)

On Love 1080(1)

From Rosalind and Helen (1819)

Lines written among the Euganean Hills, October 1818 1081(9)

From Posthumous Poems (1824)

Stanzas written in Dejection, near Naples 1090(1)

Prometheus Unbound (1820)

Preface 1091(4)

Dramatis Personae 1095(1)

Act I 1095(23)

Act II 1118(18)

Act III 1136(13)

Act IV 1149(15)

The Mask of Anarchy Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester 1164(11)

From Prometheus Unbound (1820)

Ode to the West Wind 1175(2)

From Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments (1840)

On Life 1177(3)

England in 1819 1180(1)

'Lift not the painted veil' 1181(1)

From Prometheus Unbound (1820)

To a Skylark 1181(3)

A Defence of Poetry; or, Remarks Suggested by an Essay Entitled

`The Four Ages of Poetry' (extracts) 1184(15)

Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats (1821) 1199(18)

From Posthumous Poems (1824)

Music, when soft voices die 1217(1)

When passion's trance is overpast 1218(1)

To Edward Williams ('The serpent is shut out from Paradise') 1218(2)

With a Guitar, to Jane 1220(3)

John Clare (1793--1864) 1223(18)

From The London Magazine (1822)

To Elia 1224(1)

Sonnet 1224(1)

From The Shepherd's Calendar (1827)

January (A Cottage Evening) (extract) 1225(1)

June (extract) 1226(1)

To the Snipe 1227(3)

The Flitting 1230(5)

The Badger 1235(2)

A Vision 1237(1)

'I am' 1237(1)

An Invite to Eternity 1238(1)

Little Trotty Wagtail 1239(1)

Silent Love 1239(1)

['O could I be as I have been'] 1240(1)

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (nee Browne) (1793--1835) 1241(82)

From Poems (1808)

Written on the Sea-Shore 1247(1)

From Welsh Melodies (1822)

The Rock of Cader Idris 1247(1)

From The Works of Mrs Hemans (1839)

Manuscript fragments in prose 1248(1)

From Records of Woman: With Other Poems (1828)

Records of Woman (complete sequence) 1249(59)

Dedication 1250(1)

Arabella Stuart 1250(7)

The Bride of the Greek Isle 1257(5)

The Switzer's Wife 1262(3)

Properzia Rossi 1265(4)

Gertrude, or Fidelity till Death 1269(2)

Imelda 1271(3)

Edith, a Tale of the Woods 1274(5)

The Indian City 1279(5)

The Peasant Girl of the Rhone 1284(2)

Indian Woman's Death Song 1286(2)

Joan of Arc, in Rheims 1288(3)

Pauline 1291(2)

Juana 1293(2)

The American Forest Girl 1295(2)

Costanza 1297(3)

Madeline, a Domestic Tale 1300(2)

The Queen of Prussia's Tomb 1302(2)

The Memorial Pillar 1304(2)

The Grave of a Poetess 1306(2)

Miscellaneous Pieces (1828)

The Homes of England 1308(1)

The Sicilian Captive 1309(3)

To Wordsworth 1312(1)

The Spirit's Mysteries 1312(2)

The Graves of a Household 1314(1)

From Songs of the Affections, with Other Poems (1830)

The Land of Dreams 1315(1)

Nature's Farewell 1316(2)

Second Sight 1318(1)

From The Works of Mrs Hemans (1839)

Despondency and Aspiration 1319(4)

From The New Monthly Magazine (1835)

Thoughts During Sickness: II. Sickness Like Night 1323(1)

John Gibson Lockhart (1794--1854) 1323(9)

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (August 1818)

The Cockney School of Poetry No. IV (extracts) 1327(5)

John Keats (1795--1821) 1332(102)

From Poems (1817)

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 1342(1)

Addressed to Haydon 1343(1)

On the Grasshopper and the Cricket 1344(1)

From Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1818) (extracts)

['A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'] 1344(1)

[Hymn to Pan] 1345(2)

[The Pleasure Thermometer] 1347(2)

Letter from John Keats to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817 (extract) 1349(1)

Letter from John Keats to George and Tom Keats, 21 December 1817 (extract) 1350(1)

On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again 1351(1)

Sonnet: `When I have fears that I may cease to be' 1351(1)

Letter from John Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 February 1818 (extract) 1352(1)

Letter from John Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 May 1818 (extract) 1353(1)

From Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820) Hyperion: A Fragment 1354(21)

Letter from John Keats to Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 1818 1375(1)

From Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820)

The Eve of St Agnes 1376(12)

Journal-Letter from John Keats to George and Georgiana Keats, 14 February-3 May 1819 (extracts) 1388(2)

La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad 1390(3)

From Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820)

Ode to Psyche 1393(2)

Ode to a Nightingale 1395(2)

Ode on a Grecian Urn 1397(3)

Ode on Melancholy 1400(1)

Ode on Indolence 1401(2)

From Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820)

Lamia 1403(16)

To Autumn 1419(1)

The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream 1420(13)

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art 1433(1)

[This living hand, now warm and capable] 1433(1)

Hartley Coleridge (1796--1849) 1434(1)

From Poems (1833)

Sonnet IX ('Long time a child, and still a child') 1434(1)

From Essays and Marginalia (1851)

Sonnet: `When I review the course that I have run' 1435(1)

To Wordsworth 1435(1)

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (nee Godwin) (1797--1851) 1435(7)

From Journals 1437(1)

28 May 1817 1437(1)

15 May 1824 1437(1)

On Reading Wordsworth's Lines on Peele Castle 1438(1)

A Dirge 1439(1)

[Oh listen while I sing to thee] 1439(1)

From The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley ed. Mary Shelley (1839)

Note on the `Prometheus Unbound' (extracts) 1440(2)

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802--1838) 1442(20)

From The Improvisatrice and Other Poems (1824)

The Improvisatrice: Introduction 1448(1)

[Sappho's Song] 1449(1)

From New Monthly Magazine (1835)

Stanzas on the Death of Mrs Hemans 1450(3)

From Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book (1838)

Felicia Hemans 1453(2)

From The Works of L. E. Landon (1838)

Scenes in London: Piccadilly 1455(2)

The Princess Victoria 1457(1)

From The Zenana, and Minor Poems of L.E.L. (1839)

On Wordsworth's Cottage, near Grasmere Lake 1458(2)

From Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L. (1841)

The Poet's Lot 1460(1)

Death in the Flower 1461(1)

Experience Too Late 1461(1)

The Farewell 1461(1)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806--1861) 1462(6)

From The Globe and Traveller (30 June 1824)

Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron (composed shortly after 14 May 1824) 1463(1)

From New Monthly Magazine (1835)

Stanzas Addressed to Miss Landon, and suggested by her `Stanzas on the Death of Mrs Hemans' 1464(1)

From The Athenaeum (26 January 1839)

L.E.L.'s Last Question 1465(2)

From The Athenaeum (29 October 1842)

Sonnet on Mr Haydon's Portrait of Mr Wordsworth 1467(1)
Index of first lines 1468(4)
Index to headnotes and notes 1472