Romanticism
An Anthology, Fourth Edition
This new edition of the groundbreaking Romanticism: An Anthology is the only book of its kind to contain complete texts of a wide range of Romantic works, including Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Urizen; Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads (1798); Wordsworth's Two-Part Prelude; early and revised versions of Coleridge's 'The Eolian Harp', 'This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison', 'Frost at Midnight', and 'The Ancient Mariner'; Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, Epipsychidion and Adonais; Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto III and Don Juan Dedication and Cantos I and II; and Keats's Odes, the two Hyperions, Lamia, Isabella and The Eve of St Agnes. It also carries explanatory annotations and author headnotes. Updated to incorporate the latest scholarly findings, it remains the essential text on Romanticism.
Don Juan Dedication and Cantos I and II; and Keats's Odes, the two Hyperions, Lamia, Isabella and The Eve of St Agnes. It also carries explanatory annotations and author headnotes. Updated to incorporate the latest scholarly findings, it remains the essential text on Romanticism.
• Includes all texts from the third edition, with the addition of Keats's Isabella and Shelley's Epipsychidion, as well as a selection of the poems of Walter Scott
• Includes a wider and deeper selection of texts by the Big Six male poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron and Shelley) than any competing volume
• Includes a generous range of texts by female Romantic poets
• All editorial materials, including annotations, author headnotes, and prefatory materials, have been revised for the new edition
• The only book to contain complete texts, edited for this volume from manuscript and early printed sources by Wu, along with explanatory annotations and author headnotes
• Contains everything teachers and students require for an in-depth survey of the principal writings to emerge from the British Romantic period
• The most widely-used teaching anthology in the field in the UK
• Companion website features a dynamic timeline detailing significant events of the romantic period and providing images, suggestions for further reading and useful links to other online resources
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations xxviii
List of Plates xxix
Abbreviations xxx
Introduction xxxii
Editor's Note on the Fourth Edition xlv
Editorial Principles xlvi
Acknowledgements xlviii
A Romantic Timeline 1770–1851 li
Richard Price (1723–1791) 3
Thomas Warton (1728–1790) 6
Edmund Burke (1729/30–1797) 8
William Cowper (1731–1800) 17
Thomas Paine (1737–1809) 24
Anna Seward (1742–1809) 29
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (née Aikin) (1743–1825) 34
Hannah More (1745–1833) 55
Charlotte Smith (née Turner) (1749–1806) 81
George Crabbe (1754–1832) 146
William Godwin (1756–1836) 155
Ann Yearsley (née Cromartie) (1756–1806) 160
William Blake (1757–1827) 174
Mary Robinson (née Darby) (1758–1800) 250
Robert Burns (1759–1796) 265
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797) 281
Helen Maria Williams (1761–1827) 291
Joanna Baillie (1762–1851) 313
William Lisle Bowles (1762–1851) 321
John Thelwall (1764–1834) 322
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798) 333
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) 420
Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) 597
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855) 603
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) 611
Francis, Lord Jeffrey (1773–1850) 734
Robert Southey (1774–1843) 741
Charles Lamb (1775–1834) 756
William Hazlitt (1778–1830) 774
James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784–1859) 816
Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) 829
Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786–1846) 858
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788–1824) 862
Richard Woodhouse, Jr (1788–1834) 1067
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) 1070
John Clare (1793–1864) 1271
Felicia Dorothea Hemans (née Browne) (1793–1835) 1290
John Gibson Lockhart (1794–1854) 1375
John Keats (1795–1821) 1384
Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849) 1503
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) (1797–1851) 1505
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) 1512
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) 1532
Index of First Lines 1538
Index to Headnotes and Notes 1543
