The Romantic Poetry Handbook

Contents Acknowledgements viii Part 1 Introduction 1 Part 2 Timeline of the Late Eighteenth Century and Romantic Period 21 Part 3 Biographies 47 Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) 49 Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) 51 William Blake (1757-1827) 54 Robert Burns (1759-1796) 57 Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) 59 John Clare (1793-1864) 61 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 63 Felicia Hemans (1793-1835) 66 (James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) 69 John Keats (1795-1821) 72 Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) 74 Thomas Moore (1779-1852) 77 Mary Robinson (1758-1800) 80 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 82 Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) 85 Robert Southey (1774-1843) 87 William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 90 Ann Yearsley (1753-1806) 93 Part 4 Readings 95 First?]Generation Romantic Poets 95 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 97 Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets 101 Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head 107 Ann Yearsley, 'Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave?]trade'; 'Bristol Elegy' 110 William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience 115 William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell ; The Book of Urizen ; 'The Mental Traveller' 124 Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon 132 Robert Burns, Lyrics 137 William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads 144 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' 152 William Wordsworth, The Prelude 163 William Wordsworth, The Excursion 174 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Conversation Poems: 'The Eolian Harp', 'This Lime?]Tree Bower My Prison', 'Frost at Midnight', and 'Dejection: An Ode' 179 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ; Kubla Khan; 'The Pains of Sleep'; Christabel 187 Robert Southey, Thalaba the Destroyer and The Curse of Kehama 196 Second?]Generation Romantic Poets 203 Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies 205 Leigh Hunt, The Story of Rimini 211 Lord Byron, Lara ; 'When We Two Parted'; 'Stanzas to Augusta'; Manfred 215 Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 223 Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos 1-4 232 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Queen Mab ; Alastor; Laon and Cythna [The Revolt of Islam] 242 Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty'; 'Mont Blanc'; 'Ozymandias'; 'Ode to the West Wind'; the late poems to Jane Williams 251 Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound; Adonais; The Triumph of Life 260 John Keats, Endymion ; 'Sleep and Poetry'; The Sonnets 268 John Keats, Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion 277 John Keats, The 1820 Volume 284 Third?]Generation Romantic Poets 295 John Clare: Lyrics 297 Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman: With Other Poems 304 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' 311 Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Death's Jest?]Book and Lyrics 318 Part 5 Further Reading 325 General Critical Reading 327 Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) 328 Thomas Lovell Beddoes (1803-1849) 328 William Blake (1757-1827) 329 Robert Burns (1759-1796) 329 Lord George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) 329 John Clare (1793-1864) 330 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 330 Felicia Hemans (1793-1835) 331 (James Henry) Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) 331 John Keats (1795-1821) 331 Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) 331 Thomas Moore (1779-1852) 332 Mary Robinson (1758-1800) 332 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 332 Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) 333 Robert Southey (1774-1843) 333 William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 333 Ann Yearsley (1753-1806) 334 Index