Table of Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Acknowledgements
4. Part 1: Introduction
   1. Definitions
   2. Thought, Feeling, History
   3. Biography, Groupings, and Genres
   4. Romantic Poetry and the Reader
   5. Self, World, and Metapoetry
   6. ‘Readings’
5. Part 2: Timeline of the Late Eighteenth Century and Romantic Period
6. Part 3: Biographies
   1. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825)
      1. Source
      2. Biography
   2. Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)
      1. Source
      2. Biography
   3. William Blake (1757–1827)
      1. Source
      2. Biographies
   4. Robert Burns (1759–1796)
      1. Source
      2. Biographies
   5. Lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824)
      1. Source
      2. Biographies
   6. John Clare (1793–1864)
      1. Source
      2. Biography
   7. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
      1. Source
      2. Biographies
   8. Felicia Hemans (1793–1835)
      1. Source
      2. Biography
   9. (James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859)
      1. Source
      2. Biography
   10. John Keats (1795–1821)
       1. Source
       2. Biographies
   11. Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838)
       1. Source
       2. Biography
   12. Thomas Moore (1779–1852)
       1. Source
       2. Biography
   13. Mary Robinson (1758–1800)
       1. Source
       2. Biography
   14. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
       1. Source
       2. Biographies
   15. Charlotte Smith (1749–1806)
       1. Source
       2. Biography
   16. Robert Southey (1774–1843)
       1. Source
       2. Biography
   17. William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
       1. Source
       2. Biographies
   18. Ann Yearsley (1753–1806)
       1. Source
       2. Biography
7. Part 4: Readings
   1. First‐Generation Romantic Poets
      1. 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
      2. Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets
      3. Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head
      4. Ann Yearsley, ‘Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave‐trade’; ‘Bristol Elegy’
      5. William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
      6. William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ; The Book of Urizen ; ‘The Mental Traveller’
      7. Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon
      8. Robert Burns, Lyrics
      9. William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads
      10. 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’
      11. William Wordsworth, The Prelude
      12. William Wordsworth, The Excursion
      13. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Conversation Poems: ‘The Eolian Harp’, ‘This Lime‐Tree Bower My Prison’, ‘Frost at Midnight’, and ‘Dejection: An Ode’
      14. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ; Kubla Khan; ‘The Pains of Sleep’; Christabel
      15. Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer and The Curse of Kehama
   2. Second‐Generation Romantic Poets
      1. Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies
      2. Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini
      3. Lord Byron, Lara ; ‘When We Two Parted’; ‘Stanzas to Augusta’; Manfred
      4. Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
      5. Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos 1–4
      6. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab ; Alastor; Laon and Cythna [The Revolt of Islam]
      7. Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’; ‘Mont Blanc’; ‘Ozymandias’; ‘Ode to the West Wind’; the late poems to Jane Williams
      8. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound; Adonais; The Triumph of Life
      9. John Keats, Endymion ; ‘Sleep and Poetry’; The Sonnets
      10. John Keats, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion
      11. John Keats, The 1820 Volume
   3. Third‐Generation Romantic Poets
      1. John Clare: Lyrics
      2. Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman: With Other Poems
      3. 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’
      4. Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death’s Jest‐Book and Lyrics
8. Part 5: Further Reading
   1. General Critical Reading
   2. Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743–1825)
   3. Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803–1849)
   4. William Blake (1757–1827)
   5. Robert Burns (1759–1796)
   6. Lord George Gordon Byron (1788–1824)
   7. John Clare (1793–1864)
   8. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
   9. Felicia Hemans (1793–1835)
   10. (James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784–1859)
   11. John Keats (1795–1821)
   12. Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838)
   13. Thomas Moore (1779–1852)
   14. Mary Robinson (1758–1800)
   15. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
   16. Charlotte Smith (1749–1806)
   17. Robert Southey (1774–1843)
   18. William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
   19. Ann Yearsley (1753–1806)
9. Index
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