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"An outstanding anthology, an excellent choice for advanced undergraduate courses on the Romantic era. This edition's improvements include illustrations, a detailed chronology, and expanded selections from women poets. I look forward to using this edition of Romanticism for years to come." Kim Wheatley, College of William and Mary
"This anthology, even more magnificent and indispensable in its Third Edition, is not simply the most useful or the most learned anthology of English Romantic poetry and thought; it is the most exciting." Leslie Brisman, Yale University
Duncan Wu's Romanticism: An Anthology has been appreciated by thousands of literature students and their teachers across the globe since its first appearance in 1994, and is the most widely used teaching text in the field in the UK. Now in its fourth edition, it stands as the essential work on Romanticism. It remains the only such book to contain complete poems and essays edited especially for this volume from manuscript and early printed sources by Wu, along with his explanatory annotations and author headnotes. This new edition carries all texts from the previous edition, adding Keats's Isabella and Shelley's Epipsychidion, as well as a new selection from the poems of Sir Walter Scott. All editorial materials, including annotations, author headnotes, and prefatory materials, are revised for this new edition.
Romanticism: An Anthology remains the only textbook of its kind to include complete and uncut texts of:
As well as generous selections from the works of Mary Robinson, John Thelwall, Dorothy Wordsworth, Robert Southey, Charles Lamb, Thomas De Quincey, William Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt, John Clare, Letitia Landon and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Visit www.romanticismanthology.com for resources to accompany the anthology, including a dynamic timeline which illustrates key historical and literary events during the Romantic period and features links to useful materials and visual media.
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
From A Discourse on the Love of our Country (1789) [On Representation] 4
[Prospects for Reform] 5
Thomas Warton (1728-1790) 6
From Poems (1777)
Sonnet IX. To the River Lodon 7
Edmund Burke (1729/30-1797) 8
From A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) Obscurity 10
From Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) 11
[History will record...] 11
[The age of chivalry is gone] 12
[On Englishness] 14
[Society is a Contract] 15
William Cowper (1731-1800) 17
From The Task (1785) [Crazy Kate] (Book I) 19
[On Slavery] (Book II) 20
[The Winter Evening] (Book IV) 21
From Works (1835-7) Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce, or The Slave-Trader in the Dumps 23
Thomas Paine (1737-1809) 24
From Common Sense (1776)
Of the Origin and Design of Government in General 26
From The Rights of Man Part I (1791)
[Freedom of Posterity] 26
[On Revolution] 27
From The Rights of Man Part II (1792)
[Republicanism] 28
Anna Seward (1742-1809) 29
Sonnet written from an Eastern Apartment in the Bishop's Palace at Lichfield 30
From Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems (1796) To Time Past. Written Dec. 1772 30
From Gentleman's Magazine (1786) Advice to Mrs Smith. A Sonnet 31
From Llangollen Vale, with Other Poems (1796) Eyam 32
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (née Aikin) (1743-1825) 34
From Poems (1773) A Summer Evening's Meditation 37
From Poems (1792) Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade 41
From Works (1825) The Rights of Woman 44
From The Monthly Magazine (1799)
To Mr Coleridge 45
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, A Poem (1812) 46
Hannah More (1745-1833) 55
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 59
Slavery: A Poem (1788) 69
Cheap RepositoryThe Story of Sinful Sally. Told by Herself (1796) 76
Charlotte Smith (née Turner) (1749-1806) 81
Elegiac Sonnets: The Third Edition. With Twenty Additional Sonnets (1786) 87
To William Hayley, Esq. 87
Preface to the First Edition 87
Preface to the Third Edition 88
George Crabbe (1754-1832) 146
From The Borough (1810) Letter XXII: The Poor of the Borough
Peter Grimes 147
William Godwin (1756-1836) 155
From Political Justice (2 vols, 1793) [On Property] 157
[Love of Justice] 158
[On Marriage] 159
Ann Yearsley (née Cromartie) (1756-1806) 160
From Poems on various subjects (1787) Addressed to Sensibility 163
A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade (1788) 165
William Blake (1757-1827) 174
All Religions Are One (composed c.1788) 180
There is no Natural Religion (composed c.1788) 181
The Book of Thel (1789) 182
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1789-94)
Songs of Innocence (1789) 186Introduction 186
Mary Robinson (née Darby) (1758-1800) 250
From The Wild Wreath (1804) A London Summer Morning 253
From Lyrical Tales (1800) The Haunted Beach 255
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 257
From Memoirs of the Late Mrs Robinson (1801) Mrs Robinson to the Poet Coleridge 259
From The Wild Wreath (1804) The Savage of Aveyron 261
Robert Burns (1759-1796) 265
From Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect (1786) Epistle to J. Lapraik, an old Scotch bard, 1 April 1785 267
Man was Made to Mourn, A Dirge 271
To a Mouse, on turning her up in her nest, with the plough, November 1785 273
From Francis Grose, The Antiquities of Scotland (1791) Tam o' Shanter. A Tale 275
Song ['Oh my love's like the red, red rose'] 281
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) 281
From A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790) [On Poverty] 283
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) Introduction 284
[On the Lack of Learning] 287
[A Revolution in Female Manners] 288
[On State Education] 289
Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) 291
From Poems (1786) Part of an Irregular Fragment, found in a Dark Passage of the Tower 296
From Letters written in France in the summer of 1790 (1790) [A Visit to the Bastille] 302
[On Revolution] 303
[Retrospect from England] 303
From Julia, A Novel (1790) The Bastille, A Vision 304
A Farewell, for Two Years, to England. A Poem (1791) 307
From Letters containing a Sketch of the Politics of France (1795) [Madame Roland] 312
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851) 313
From A Series of Plays (1798) Introductory Discourse (extracts) 314
William Lisle Bowles (1762-1851) 321
From Fourteen Sonnets (1789)
Sonnet VIII. To the River Itchin, near Winton 321
John Thelwall (1764-1834) 322
From Poems Written 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 324
From The Tribune (1795) Dangerous tendency of the attempt to suppress political discussion 325
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) 326
Letter from John Thelwall to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 10 May 1796 (extract) 327
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 329
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798) 333
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) 337
The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in seven parts (Coleridge) 339
The Foster-Mother's Tale: A Dramatic Fragment (Coleridge) 357
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) 359
The Nightingale; A Conversational Poem, written in April 1798
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 420
A Night-Piece 426
The Discharged Soldier 427
The Ruined Cottage 431
First Part 431
Second Part 436
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) 597
From The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) [Melrose Abbey] 599
Caledonia 599
From Marmion (1808), From Canto v
Lochinvar 600
From Tales of My Landlord (1819); The Bride of Lammermoor Lucy Ashton's Song 602
From J. G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Scott (1837-8)
Scott's Diary: 12 February 1826 602
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855) 603
From The Grasmere Journals
Wednesday 3 September 1800 604
Friday 3 October 1800 (extract) 605
Thursday 15 April 1802 605
Thursday 29 April 1802 606
4 October 1802 607
A Cottage in Grasmere Vale 608
After-recollection at sight of the same cottage 609
A Sketch 609
Thoughts on my Sickbed 609
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 611
From Sonnets from Various Authors (1796) Sonnet V. To the River Otter 618
Letter from S. T. Coleridge to George Dyer, 10 March 1795 (extract) 619
From Poems on Various Subjects (1796) Effusion XXXV. Composed 20 August 1795, at Clevedon, Somersetshire parallel text 620
From Poetical Works (1834) The Eolian Harp. Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire (1834) parallel text 621
From Poems (1797) Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement 626
Francis, Lord Jeffrey (1773-1850) 734
From Edinburgh Review (November 1814)
Review of William Wordsworth, 'The Excursion' (extracts) 735
Robert Southey (1774-1843) 741
From The Monthly Magazine (October 1797) Hannah, A Plaintive Tale 744
From The Morning Post (30 June 1798) The Idiot 746
From The Morning Post (9 August 1798) The Battle of Blenheim 748
From The Morning Post (26 September 1798) Night 750
From Critical Review (October 1798) Review of William Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge, 'Lyrical Ballads' (1798) 751
From Poems (1799) The Sailor who had Served in the Slave-Trade 753
Charles Lamb (1775-1834) 756
From Blank Verse by Charles Lloyd and Charles Lamb (1798) The Old Familiar Faces 760
From The Annual Anthology (1799) Living without God in the World 761
Letter from Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, 30 January 1801 (extract) 762
Letter from Charles Lamb to John Taylor, 30 June 1821 (extract) 763
From Elia (1823) Imperfect Sympathies 764
Witches, and Other Night-Fears 769
William Hazlitt (1778-1830) 774
From The Round Table (1817) On Gusto 779
From The New Monthly Magazine (February 1822) The Fight 782
From The Liberal (April 1823) My First Acquaintance with Poets 794
From The Spirit of the Age (1825) Mr Coleridge 808
James Henry Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) 816
From The Examiner (14 May 1815) To Hampstead 820
From The Story of Rimini, A Poem (1816) Canto III. The Fatal Passion (extract) 820
From The Examiner (21 September 1817) On the Grasshopper and Cricket 825
From Foliage (1818) To Percy Shelley, on the degrading notions of deity 826
To the Same 826
To John Keats 827
From The Indicator (1820)
A Now, Descriptive of a Hot Day 827
Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) 829
From Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822) [Ann of Oxford Street] 835
[The Malay] 837
[The Pains of Opium] 839
[The Pains of Opium: Visions of Piranesi] 841
[Oriental Dreams] 842
[Easter Sunday] 843
Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) 858
[The Immortal Dinner] 860
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) 862
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt (1812) Written Beneath a Picture 872
From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: A Romaunt (2nd edn, 1812) Stanzas 872
From Hebrew Melodies (1815) She Walks in Beauty 874
From Poems (1816) When we two parted 875
Richard Woodhouse, Jr (1788-1834) 1067
Letter from Richard Woodhouse to John Taylor, c.27 October 1818 (extract) 1067
Letter from Richard Woodhouse to John Taylor, 19 September 1819 (extract) 1069
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 1070
From Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude, and Other Poems (1816) To Wordsworth 1081
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude 1081
Journal-Letter from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock, 22 July to 2 August 1816 (extract) 1100
From The Examiner (19 January 1817) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 1101
John Clare (1793-1864) 1271
From The London Magazine (1822) To Elia 1272
Sonnet 1272
From The Shepherd's Calendar (1827) January (A Cottage Evening) (extract) 1273
June (extract) 1274
To the Snipe 1275
The Flitting 1278
The Badger 1284
A Vision 1285
'I am' 1286
An Invite to Eternity 1286
Little Trotty Wagtail 1287
Silent Love 1288
['O could I be as I have been'] 1288
Felicia Dorothea Hemans (née Browne) (1793-1835) 1290
From Poems (1808) Written on the Sea-Shore 1296
From Welsh Melodies (1822) The Rock of Cader Idris 1296
From The Works of Mrs Hemans (1839) Manuscript fragments in prose 1297
From Records of Woman: With Other Poems (1828) Records of Woman (complete sequence) 1298
Dedication 1299
John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) 1375
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (August 1818) The Cockney School of Poetry No. IV (extracts) 1379
John Keats (1795-1821) 1384
From Poems (1817) On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 1396
Addressed to Haydon 1397
On the Grasshopper and the Cricket 1398
From Endymion: A Poetic Romance (1818) (extracts) ['A thing of beauty is a joy for ever'] 1398
[Hymn to Pan] 1399
[The Pleasure Thermometer] 1401
Letter from John Keats to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817 (extract) 1403
Letter from John Keats to George and Tom Keats, 21 December 1817 (extract) 1404
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again 1405
Sonnet: 'When I have fears that I may cease to be' 1406
Letter from John Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 February 1818 (extract) 1406
From Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, and Other Poems (1820) Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil 1407
Hartley Coleridge (1796-1849) 1503
From Poems (1833) Sonnet IX ('Long time a child, and still a child') 1504
From Essays and Marginalia (1851) Sonnet: 'When I review the course that I have run' 1504
To Wordsworth 1504
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (née Godwin) (1797-1851) 1505
From Journals 1506
28 May 1817 1506
15 May 1824 1506
On Reading Wordsworth's Lines on Peele Castle 1507
A Dirge 1508
[Oh listen while I sing to thee] 1509
From The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. Mary Shelley (1839) Note on the 'Prometheus Unbound' (extracts) 1509
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802-1838) 1512
From The Improvisatrice; and Other Poems (1824) The Improvisatrice: Introduction 1518
[Sappho's Song] 1519
From New Monthly Magazine (1835) Stanzas on the Death of Mrs Hemans 1520
From Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap-Book (1838) Felicia Hemans 1522
From The Works of L. E. Landon (1838) Scenes in London: Piccadilly 1525
The Princess Victoria 1527
From The Zenana, and Minor Poems of L.E.L. (1839) On Wordsworth's Cottage, near Grasmere Lake 1528
From Life and Literary Remains of L.E.L. (1841) The Poet's Lot 1530
Death in the Flower 1531
Experience Too Late 1531
The Farewell 1531
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) 1532
From The Globe and Traveller (30 June 1824) Stanzas on the Death of Lord Byron (composed shortly after 14 May 1824) 1533
From New Monthly Magazine (1835) Stanzas Addressed to Miss Landon, and suggested by her 'Stanzas on the Death of Mrs Hemans' 1534
From The Athenaeum (26 January 1839) L.E.L.'s Last Question 1535
From The Athenaeum (29 October 1842) Sonnet on Mr Haydon's Portrait of Mr Wordsworth 1537
Index of First Lines 1538
Index to Headnotes and Notes 1543
Duncan Wu is Professor of English at Georgetown University, a former Professor of English Literature at the Universities of Glasgow and Oxford, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. His publications include A Companion to Romanticism (Blackwell, 1997) and Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology (Blackwell, 1997). He is Vice-Chairman of the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and The Charles Lamb Society.
