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Cover Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Illustrations Plates Abbreviations Introduction Editor’s Note on the Fourth Edition Editorial Principles Acknowledgements A Romantic Timeline 1770–1851 Richard Price (1723–1791)

[On Representation] Prospects for Reform

Thomas Warton (1728–1790)

Sonnet IX. To the River Lodon

Edmund Burke (1729/30–1797)

Obscurity History will record… The age of chivalry is gone On Englishness Society is a Contract

William Cowper (1731–1800)

[Crazy Kate] [On Slavery] [The Winter Evening] Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce, or The Slave-Trader in the Dumps (composed 1788)

Thomas Paine (1737–1809)

Of the Origin and Design of Government in General [Freedom of Posterity] [On Revolution] [Republicanism]

Anna Seward (1742–1809)

Sonnet written from an Eastern Apartment in the Bishop’s Palace at Lichfield, which commands a view of Stowe Valley. April 1771 (edited from MS) To Time Past. Written Dec. 17 Advice to Mrs Smith. A Sonnet. Eyam (composed August 1788)

Anna Laetitia Barbauld (née Aikin) (1743–1825)

A Summer Evening’s Meditation Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq.,1 on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade2 (composed by 17 June 1791) The Rights of Woman (composed c.1795) To Mr Coleridge1 (composed c.1797) Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem (composed by 1 December 1811; published February 1812)

Hannah More (1745–1833)

Sensibility: A Poetical Epistle to the Hon. Mrs Boscawen Slavery: A Poem (1788) Cheap Repository: The Story of Sinful Sally. Told by Herself (1796)

Charlotte Smith (née Turner) (1749–1806)

Elegiac Sonnets: The Third Edition. With Twenty Additional Sonnets (1786) The Emigrants: A Poem in Two Books (1793) Beachy Head

George Crabbe (1754–1832)

Peter Grimes

William Godwin (1756–1836)

[On Property] [Love of Justice] [On Marriage]

Ann Yearsley (née Cromartie) (1756–1806)

Addressed to Sensibility A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade (1788)

William Blake (1757–1827)

All Religions Are One (composed c.1788) There is no Natural Religion (composed c.1788) The Book of Thel (1789) Songs of Innocence (1789) Songs of Experience (1794) The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) The First Book of Urizen (1794) Letter from William Blake to the Revd Dr Trusler , 23 August 1799 (extract) The Mental Traveller The Crystal Cabinet [And did those feet in ancient time]

Mary Robinson (née Darby) (1758–1800)

A London Summer Morning (composed 1794) The Haunted Beach Ode Inscribed to the Infant Son of S.T. Coleridge, Esq. Born 14 September 1800 at Keswick in Cumberland. Mrs Robinson to the Poet Coleridge (composed October 1800) The Savage of Aveyron (composed October 1800)

Robert Burns (1759–1796)

Epistle to J. Lapraik, an old Scotch bard, 1 April 1785 Man was Made to Mourn, A Dirge (composed August 1785) To a Mouse, on turning her up in her nest, with the plough, November 1785 Tam o’ Shanter. A Tale (composed late 1790) Song (composed by November 1793, published 1796, edited from MS)

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

[On Poverty] From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)

Helen Maria Williams (1761–1827)

Part of an Irregular Fragment, found in a Dark Passage of the Tower [A Visit to the Bastille] [On Revolution] [Retrospect from England] The Bastille, A Vision A Farewell, for Two Years, to England. A Poem (1791) [Madame Roland]

Joanna Baillie (1762–1851)

Introductory Discourse (extracts)

William Lisle Bowles (1762–1851)

From Fourteen Sonnets (1789)

John Thelwall (1764–1834)

Stanzas on hearing for certainty that we were to be tried for high treason (composed 28 September 1794) Dangerous tendency of the attempt to suppress political discussion (published 21 March 1795) 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) Letter from John Thelwall to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 10 May 1796 (extract) (edited from MS) Lines written at Bridgwater in Somersetshire, on 27 July 1797, during a long excursion in quest of a peaceful retreat

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

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

A Night-Piece (composed by 25 January 1798; edited from MS) The Discharged Soldier (composed late January 1798; edited from MS) The Ruined Cottage (composed 1797–8; edited from MS) The Pedlar (composed February–March 1798, edited from MS) [Not useless do I deem] (composed February–March 1798; edited from MS) [Away, away – it is the air] (composed between 20 April and 16 May 1798; first published 1947) [The Two-Part Prelude] (Part I composed October 1798–February 1799; Part II, autumn 1799; edited from MS) [There is an active principle] (extract) (composed between 6 October 1798 and late April 1799; edited from MS) [There was a boy] (composed between 6 October and early December 1798) Nutting (composed between 6 October and 28 December 1798) [Strange fits of passion I have known] (composed between 6 October and 28 December 1798) Song (composed between 6 October and 28 December 1798) [A slumber did my spirit seal] (composed between 6 October and 28 December 1798) [Three years she grew in sun and shower] (composed between 6 October and 28 December 1798) [The Prelude: Glad Preamble] (composed late November 1799; edited from MS) [Prospectus to ‘The Recluse’] (composed probably November or December 1799; edited from MS) The Brothers: A Pastoral Poem (composed December 1799–early March 1800) Preface to Lyrical Ballads (complete text; composed September 1800) Note to ‘The Thorn’ (composed late September 1800) Note to Coleridge’s ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ’ Michael: A Pastoral Poem (composed October–December 1800) [I travelled among unknown men] (composed c. 29 April 1801) Appendix to the Preface to Lyrical Ballads: On Poetic Diction (extracts) (composed early 1802) Preface to Lyrical Ballads (extracts) (revised text composed January to April 1802) To H.C., Six Years Old (composed probably between 4 March and 4 April 1802) The Rainbow (composed probably 26 March 1802) [These chairs they have no words to utter] (composed c.22 April 1802; edited from MS) Resolution and Independence (composed probably 3 May–4 July 1802) [I grieved for Buonaparte] (composed 21 May 1802) [The world is too much with us] (composed late May 1802) Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802 (composed probably 31 July 1802, possibly revised early September 1802) To Toussaint L’Ouverture (composed August 1802) [It is a beauteous evening, calm and free] (composed 1–29 August 1802) 1 September 1802 (composed 29 August–1 September 1802) London 1802 (composed September 1802) [Great men have been among us] (composed summer 1802) Ode (from 1815 entitled Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood) (composed between 27 March 1802 and 6 March 1804) From The Five-Book Prelude (February–March 1804; edited from MS) [The Infant Prodigy] (from Book IV) Daffodils [‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ ] (composed March 1804–April 1807) Stepping Westward (composed 3 June 1805) The Solitary Reaper (composed 5 November 1805) From The Thirteen-Book Prelude (composed 1804–6; edited from MS) [Crossing the Alps] (from Book VI) [The London Beggar] (from Book VII) [London and the Den of Yordas] (from Book VIII) [Paris, December 1791] (from Book IX) [Blois, Spring 1792] (from Book IX) [Beaupuy] (from Book IX) [Godwinism] (from Book X) [Confusion and Recovery; Racedown, Spring 1796] (from Book X) [The Climbing of Snowdon] (from Book XIII) Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont (composed between 20 May and 27 June 1806) A Complaint (composed between 30 October 1806 and April 1807) Star Gazers (composed November 1806) [St Paul’s] (composed 1808; edited from MS) [Surprised by joy – impatient as the wind ] (composed between 1812 and 1814) Preface (extract) Conclusion (composed 1818–20) [Genius of Burke!] (composed by 1832; edited from MS) Airey-Force Valley (composed September 1835) Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg (composed between 21 November and 3 December 1835) [On the ‘Ode’ ] (extract) [On ‘We are Seven’ ] (extract)

Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832)

[Melrose Abbey] Caledonia Lochinvar Lucy Ashton’s Song Scott’s Diary

Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855)

From The Grasmere Journals A Cottage in Grasmere Vale (composed c. 1805, edited from MS) After-recollection at sight of the same cottage (edited from MS) A Sketch (composed by 1826; edited from MS) Thoughts on my Sickbed (composed c.1831; edited from MS)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

Francis, Lord Jeffrey (1773–1850)

Review of William Wordsworth, ‘The Excursion’ (extracts)

Robert Southey (1774–1843)

Hannah, A Plaintive Tale (composed by 15 September 1797) The Idiot The Battle of Blenheim Night Review of William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, ‘Lyrical Ballads’ (1798) The Sailor who had Served in the Slave-Trade

Charles Lamb (1775–1834)

The Old Familiar Faces(composed January 1798) Living without God in the World (probably composed between 1796 and 1798) Letter from Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 30 January 1801(extract) Letter from Charles Lamb to John Taylor,30 June 1821(extract) Imperfect Sympathies Witches, and Other Night-Fears

William Hazlitt (1778–1830)

On Gusto The Fight My First Acquaintance with Poets Mr Coleridge

James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784–1859)

To Hampstead (composed 7 May 1815) Canto III. The Fatal Passion (extract) On the Grasshopper and Cricket To Percy Shelley, on the degrading notions of deity To the Same To John Keats (composed 1 December 1816) A Now, Descriptive of a Hot Day

Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859)

[Ann of Oxford Street] [The Malay] [The Pains of Opium] [The Pains of Opium: Visions of Piranesi] [Oriental Dreams] [Easter Sunday] On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth (first published under the pseudonym, ‘X.Y.Z.’) [On Wordsworth’s ‘There was a boy’] Suspiria de Profundis: The Affliction of Childhood (extract) Suspiria de Profundis: The Palimpsest (extract) Suspiria de Profundis: Finale to Part I. Savannah-la-Mar

Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786–1846)

[The Immortal Dinner]

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (I788–I824)

Written Beneath a Picture (composed c.January 1812) Stanzas (composed February 1812) She Walks in Beauty (composed c.12 June 1814) When we two parted (composed August or September 1815) Fare Thee Well! (composed 18 March 1816) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Prometheus (composed July or early August 1816) Stanzas to Augusta (composed 24 July 1816) Epistle to Augusta (composed August 1816; edited from MS) Darkness (composed between 21 July and 25 August 1816) Manfred, A Dramatic Poem (composed September 1816–15, February 1817; published 1817) Letter from Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 February 1817 (extract) (including ‘So we’ll go no more a-roving’) Don Juan (first published 1819; edited from MS) To the Po. 2 June 1819 (composed 1 or 2 June 1819; first published 1824; edited from MS) Letter from Lord Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1819 (extract) Messalonghi, 22 January 1824. On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year (first published 1824; edited from MS)

Richard Woodhouse, Jr (1788–1834)

Letter from Richard Woodhouse to John Taylor, c.27 October 1818 (extract) Letter from Richard Woodhouse to John Taylor, 19 September 1819 (extract)

Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792–1822)

To Wordsworth (composed probably September–October 1815) Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude (composed 10 September and 14 December 1815) Journal-Letter from to Thomas Love Peacock, 22 July to 2 August 1816 (extract) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (composed between 22 June and 29 August 1816; edited from printed text corrected by Shelley) Mont Blanc. Lines written in the Vale of Chamouni (composed between 22 July and 29 August 1816) Ozymandias (composed 26–28 December 1817) On Love (composed probably 20–25 July 1818; edited from MS) Lines written among the Euganean Hills, October 1818 Stanzas written in Dejection, near Naples (composed December 1818) The Mask of Anarchy Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester (composed 5–23 September 1819; edited from MS; published 1832) Ode to the West Wind (composed c.25 October 1819) England in 1819 (composed by 23 December 1819; published 1839; edited from MS) ‘Lift not the painted veil’ (composed 1819; first published 1824; edited from MS) On Life (composed late 1819) Prometheus Unbound: A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts (composed September 1818–December 1819; edited from printed and MS sources) To a Skylark (composed late June 1820) Epipsychidion (composed December 1820–16 February 1821) Verses Addressed to the Noble and Unfortunate Lady, Emilia Viviani, Now Imprisoned in The Convent of — A Defence of Poetry; or, Remarks Suggested by an Essay Entitled ‘The Four Ages of Poetry’ (extracts) (composed February–March 1821; first published 1840; edited from MS) Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. (1821; composed between 11 April and 8 June 1821)

John Clare (1793–1864)

To Elia (unsigned) Sonnet (first published London Magazine 6 (1822) 272; edited from MS) January (A Cottage Evening) (extract) June (extract) To the Snipe (composed before 1831; edited from MS) The Flitting (composed 1832; edited from MS) The Badger (composed between 1835 and 1837; edited from MS) A Vision (composed 2 August 1844; edited from MS) ‘I am’ (composed by 20 December 1846; edited from MS) An Invite to Eternity (composed by July 1847; edited from MS) Little Trotty Wagtail (composed 9 August 1849; edited from MS) Silent Love (composed between 1842 and 1864; edited from MS) [‘O could I be as I have been’] (composed between 1842 and 1864; edited from MS)

Felicia Dorothea Hemans (née Browne) (1793–1835)

Written on the Sea-Shore The Rock of Cader Idris Manuscript fragments in prose (composed c.1827) Records of Woman: With Other Poems (1828)(complete Records of Woman sequence included here, with some of the ‘Miscellaneous Poems’; edited from the first edition) Arabella Stuart The Bride of the Greek Isle The Switzer’s Wife Properzia Ross Gertrude, or Fidelity till Death Imelda Edith, a Tale of the Woods The Indian City The Peasant Girl of the Rhône Indian Woman’s Death Song Joan of Arc, in Rheims Pauline Juana The American Forest Girl Costanza Madeline, a Domestic Tale The Queen of Prussia’s Tomb The Memorial Pillar The Grave of a Poetess The Sicilian Captive To Wordsworth The Spirit’s Mysteries The Graves of a Household The Land of Dreams Nature’s Farewell Second Sight Despondency and Aspiration (composed November 1834) Thoughts During Sickness: II. Sickness Like Night (composed late 1834)

John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854)

The Cockney School of Poetry No. IV (signed ‘Z.’) (extracts)

John Keats (1795–1821)

On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer (composed October 1816) Addressed to Haydon (composed 19 November 1816) On the Grasshopper and the Cricket (composed 30 December 1816) FromEndymion: A Poetic Romance, Book I (extracts) (composed April–November 1817; published 1818) Letter from John Keats to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817 (extract) Letter from John Keats to George and Tom Keats, 21 December 1817 (extract) On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again (composed 22 January 1818; published 1838; edited from MS) Sonnet: ‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’ (composed 22–31 January 1818; edited from MS) Letter from John Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 February 1818 (extract) Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil: A Story from Boccaccio (composed c.March–27 April 1818) Letter from John Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 May 1818 (extract) Letter from John Keats to Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 181 Hyperion: A Fragment (composed late September–1 December 1818; abandoned April 1819) The Eve of St Agnes (composed 18 January–2 February 1819) Journal-Letter from John Keats to George and Georgiana Keats, 14 February–3 May 1819 (extracts) La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad (composed 21 April 1819; edited from MS) Ode to Psyche (composed 21–30 April 1819) Ode to a Nightingale (composed May 1819) Ode on a Grecian Urn (composed c.May 1819) Ode on Melancholy (composed c.May 1819) Ode on Indolence (composed between 19 March and 9 June 1819; edited from MS) Lamia (Part I written c.28 June and 11 July 1819, completed 12 August and c.5 September 1819, revised March 1820) To Autumn (composed c.19 September 1819) The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream (composed between late July and 21 September 1819; edited from MS) [Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art](composed October–December 1819; edited from MS) [This living hand, now warm and capable] (composed towards the end of 1819)

Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849)

Sonnet IX Sonnet: ‘When I review the course that I have run’ To Wordsworth

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) (1797–1851)

From Journals (edited from MS) On Reading Wordsworth’s Lines on Peele Castle (composed 8 December 1825; edited from MS) A Dirge (composed November 1827; edited from MS) [Oh listen while I sing to thee] (composed 12 March 1838; edited from MS) Note on the ‘Prometheus Unbound’ (extracts)

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838)

The Improvisatrice: Introduction [Sappho’s Song] Stanzas on the Death of Mrs Hemans Felicia Hemans Scenes in London: Piccadilly The Princess Victoria On Wordsworth’s Cottage, near Grasmere Lake The Poet’s Lot Death in the Flower Experience Too Late The Farewell

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron (composed shortly after 14 May 1824) Stanzas Addressed to Miss Landon, and suggested by her ‘Stanzas on the Death of Mrs Hemans’ (signed ‘B.’) L.E.L.’s Last Question Sonnet on Mr Haydon’s Portrait of Mr Wordsworth

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