THE NEW PENGUIN BOOK OF

Romantic PoetryEdited by Jonathan and Jessica Wordsworth

PENGUIN BOOKS

CONTENTS

PREFACE xxiii

INTRODUCTION: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD xxvii1. Origins xxvii

(i) Revolution and Romantic Vision xxvii(ii) A New Style and a New Spirit xxx(iii) 'And All Things In Himself: Romantic Platonism xxxii

2. The Romantic Poets In Context xxxv(i) The First Generation xxxv(ii) A Gap xxxix(iii) The Second Generation xli(iv) The Sense of an Ending xlvii

THE POETRY/. Romantic Hallmarks 3

1. CHARLOTTE SMITH: To the South Downs (Elegiac Sonnets1784) 4

2. ROBERT BURNS: To a Mountain Daisy (1786) 53. MARY ROBINSON: A London Summer Morning (1794; publ. 1804) 74. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Kubla Khan (Nov. 1797; publ. 1816) 85. CHARLES LAMB: Old Familiar Faces (1798) 106. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Lucy Poems (winter 1798-9; publ. Lyrical

Ballads 1800)(i) Lucy Gray (c. Nov.) 11(ii) Strange Fits of Passion I Have Known (c. Dec.) 13(iii) She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways (c. Dec.) 14(iv) A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal (c. Dec.) 14(v) Three Years She Grew (Feb.) 15

7. THOMAS CAMPBELL: Hohenliuden (1801; publ. 1809) 168. ROBERT SOUTHEY: The Inchcape Rock (1803) 179. WILLIAM BLAKE: And Did Those Feet (1802-4; engraved Milton

c. 1808) 1910. WALTER SCOTT: Lochinvar (Marmion 1808) 20

11. THOMAS MOORE: Oh! Blame Not the Bard (1810) 2112. LORD BYRON: 'Revelry by Night' (Gkilde Harold III, stanzas 16-18,

21-8) April 1816; publ. Dec. 2213. JOHN KEATS: To Autumn (Sept. 1819; publ. 1820) 25

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14. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: To a Skylark (1820) 2615. JAMES HOGG: When the Kye Comes Hame (1823) 2916. JOHN CLARE: The Shepherd's Calendar (July, 90-131) c. 1824; publ.

1827 3117. THOMAS HOOD: I Remember, I Remember (1826) 3218. FELICIA HEMANS: Casabianca (1824; publ. 1826) 3319. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: Lines of Life (1829) 3520. CAROLINE NORTON: My Arab Steed (1830) 3821. JAMES LEIGH HUNT: Abou Ben Adhem (1834) 39

/ / . Narratives of Love 401. MARY ROBINSON: from Sappho andPhaon (1796) 412. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Ruined Cottage (1797-8; Excursion

1814 from MS 1968) 523. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Love (Nov. 1799; publ. 1817) 644 . WILLIAM BLAKE:

(i) The Crystal Cabinet (c. 1803; from MS 1905) 67(ii) The Mental Traveller (c. 1803; from MS 1905) 68

5. MARY TIGHE: 'A Glimpse of Love' (Psyche I, stanzas 16-32) 1802-3;publ. 1805 71

6. THOMAS CAMPBELL: Gertrude of Wyoming II (1809) 767. LORD BYRON: The Bride of Abydos (stanzas 22-7) 1814 828. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Alastor (lines 140-222) 1816 879. JAMES LEIGH HUNT: Paulo and Francesca (Rimini III, lines 482-

564) 1816 89jio. THOMAS MOORE: The Fire-Worshippers (from Lalla Rookh III, lines

201-453)1817 9211. JOHN KEATS: The Eve of St Agnes (Jan.-Feb. 1819; publ. 1820) 9912. LORD BYRON: Juan and Haidee (from Don Juan II-IV) 1819-21 11013. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: The Indian Bride (Improvisatrice

1823) 12914. FELICIA HEMANS: Arabella Stuart (Records of Woman 1828) 13115. CAROLINE NORTON: The Faithless Knight (1830) 138

/ / / . Romantic Solitude, Suffering and Endurance 1401. WILLIAM COWPER: Crazy Kate (Task I, 534-56) 1785 1412. JOANNA BAILLIE: The Storm-Beat Maid (1790) 1423. CHARLOTTE SMITH: The Female Exile (Nov. 1792; publ. 1797) 1474. WILLIAM BLAKE: Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) 1485. ROBERT SOUTHEY: Mary the Maid of the Inn (1797) 1546. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Wordsworthian Solitaries

(i) Old Man Travelling (May 1797; Lyrical Ballads 1798) 157(ii) The Discharged Soldier (Feb. 1798; publ. 1850/from MS

1970) 157

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(iii) The Mad Mother (Lyrical Ballads 1798) 162(iv) Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman (Lyrical Ballads

1798) 164(v) Michael (lines 217-490) Lyrical Ballads 1800 167(vi) The Leech-Gatherer (spring 1802; publ. 1807) 173(vii) The London Beggar (1805 Prelude VII, 594-622) publ. 1850/

from MS 1926 1777. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: 'Alone, Alone'

(i) The Ancient Mariner (Lyrical Ballads 1798) 178(ii) Pains of Sleep (Sept. 1803; publ. 1816) 197

8. THOMAS CAMPBELL: Lord Ullin's Daughter (1809) 1999. MARY BRYAN: The Visit (lines 45-126) 1815 200

10. LORD BYRON: The Prisoner of Chillon (1816) 20211. JOHN KEATS: Isabella, or The Pot of Basil (stanzas 32-63) April

1818; publ. 1820 21212. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Final Moments (The CenciV, scenes

iii-iv) 1819 22013. LORD BYRON: The Shipwreck (from Don Juan II) 1819 22814. THOMAS HOOD: The Dream of Eugene Aram (1826) 23415. FELICIA HEMANS: Indian Woman's Death Song (Records of Woman

1828) 24016. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: She Sat Alone Beside Her Hearth

(c. 1835; publ. 1839) 242

IV. Ennobling Interchange: Man and Nature 2461. ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD:

(i) The Mouse's Petition (1773) 248(ii) from A Summer's Evening's Meditation (lines 17-98)

1773 2502. WILLIAM COWPER: The Winter Evening (Task IV, 267-332)

1785 2523. ROBERT BURNS: To a Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with

the Plough, November 1785 (1786) 2544. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Conversation Poems

(i) The Eolian Harp (20 Aug. 1795; publ. 1796) 255(ii) This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison (July 1797; publ. 1800) 257(iii) Frost at Midnight (Feb. 1798; publ. 1798) 259(iv) The Nightingale (May 1798; publ. Lyrical Ballads) 261

5. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: 'Images of a Mighty Mind'(i) Tintern Abbey (13 July 1798; publ. Lyrical Ballads) 264(ii) There Was a Boy (Oct. 1798; publ. Lyrical Ballads 1800) 268(iii) The Two-Part Prelude (Oct. 1798-Dec. 1799; publ. 1850/from

MS 1972) 269(iv) Statue Horse (Feb. 1804; from MS 1969) 292

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(v) Climbing of Snowdon (1805 Prelude XIII, 10-73) Feb. 1804;publ. 1850/from MS 1926 292

(vi) Crossing the Alps (1805 Prelude VI, 494-572) March 1804;publ. 1850/from MS 1926 294

6. WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES: from Coombe Ellen (1798) 2967. CHARLOTTE SMITH: Beachy Head (lines 346-505) c. 1805; publ.

1807 2978. AMELIA OPIE: Stanzas Written Under Aeolus' Harp (1808) 3009. ISABELLA LICKBARROW: On Esthwaite Water (1814) 301

10. LORD BYRON: 'Concentred in a Life Intense'(i) Lake Leman (from Childe Harold III) June 1816; publ.

Dec. 1817 303(ii) Epistle to Augusta (July 1816; publ. 1830) 306

11. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: 'The Secret Strength of Things'(i) Mont Blanc (July 1816; publ. 1817) 310(ii) To Jane: The Invitation (2 Feb. 1822; publ. 1824) 313(iii) To Jane: A Recollection (Feb. 1822; publ. 1824) 3*5

12. JOHN KEATS: 'A Sort of Oneness'(i) Endymion (I, 777-802) c. April 1817; publ. 1818 317(ii) Epistle toj. H. Reynolds (lines 82-105) March 1818; publ.

1848 31813. SAMUEL PALMER: Twilight Time (lines 1-24) c. 1827; fr°m MS

^ 1942 31914. JOHN CLARE: This Leaning Tree with Ivy Overhung (early 1830s;

from MS 1979) 32015. FELICIA HEMANS: Remembrance of Nature (1835; publ. 1838) 32116. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON:

(i) Scale Force, Cumberland (c. 1836; publ. 1839) 322(ii) Fountains Abbey (c. 1836; publ. 1839) 323

V. Romantic Odes 3241. ROBERT BURNS: Despondency, An Ode (1786) 3252. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Immortality Ode (spring 1802/

Feb. 1804; publ. 1807) 3273. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Dejection: An Ode (summer 1802;

publ. 4 Oct.) 3324. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (July 1816;

publ. Jan. 1817) 3365. JOHN KEATS: Odes of Spring 1819 (publ. 1820)

(i) Ode to Psyche (late April) 339(ii) Ode to a Nightingale (early May) 341(iii) Ode on a Grecian Urn (May) 343(iv) Ode on Melancholy (May) 344(v) Ode on Indolence (late May) 345

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6. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Ode to the West Wind (Oct. 1819; publ.1820) 347

VI. Romantic Lyric and Song 3511. WILLIAM BLAKE: Song ('How sweet I roamed') Poetical Sketches

1783 3542. ROBERT BURNS: SongS 1786-93

(i) It Was upon a Lammas Night (1786) 355(ii) The Banks 0' Doon (March 1791; publ. 1808) 356(iii) A Red Red Rose (collected 1793; publ. 1794) 357

3. WILLIAM BLAKE: from Songs of Innocence (1784-9; engraved 1789)(i) Introduction 358(ii) The Shepherd 358(iii) Infant Joy 359(iv) The Echoing Green 359(v) Laughing Song (May 1784) 360(vi) Nurse's Song (c. 1784) 360(vii) Holy Thursday (c. 1784) 361(viii) The Lamb 361(ix) The Chimney Sweeper 362(x) The Divine Image 363

4. SUSANNA BLAMIRE: 363(i) The Siller Croun (1790; publ. 1842) 363(ii) Oh Bid Me Not to Wander (c. 1792; publ. 1842) 364

5. WILLIAM BLAKE: from Songs of Experience (1791-2; engraved 1794)(i) Introduction (c. 1794) 365(ii) Earth's Answer (c. 1794) 365(iii) My Pretty Rose Tree 366(iv) The Clod and the Pebble 366(v) The Garden of Love 367(vi) A Poison Tree 367(vii) Infant Sorrow 368(viii) London 368(ix) Nurse's Song 369(x) The Tyger 369(xi) The Human Abstract 370(xii) The Sick Rose 371(xiii) The Chimney Sweeper 371(xiv) Holy Thursday 371(xv) The Fly 372(xvi) Ah! Sun-Flower (written c. 1794) 373

6. ANN BATTEN CRISTALL: Through Springtime Walks

(1795) 3737. MARY ROBINSON: A Thousand Torments (1797) 374

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8. THOMAS CAMPBELL: Written on Visiting a Scene in Argyllshire(c. 1798; publ. 1800) 375

9. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH:

I. Alfoxden Lyric (1798; publ. Lyrical Ballads)Lines Written in Early Spring 376

II. Goslar Lyrics ^1798-9; publ. Lyrical Ballads 1800) 377(i) Two April Mornings 377(ii) The Fountain 378

in. Grasmere Lyrics (spring 1802; publ. Poems 1807)(i) To the Cuckoo 381(ii) The Rainbow 382(iii) To H. C, Six Years Old 382(iv) The Cock is Crowing 383(v) To a Butterfly ('I've watched you') 383(vi) / Have Thoughts that Are Fed by the Sun (from MS

1947) 384(vii) The Sun Has Long Been Set 385

iv. Grasmere Lyrics (1804-5; publ. Poems 1807)(i) Daffodils (Feb. 1804, expanded c. 1815) 385(ii) Stepping Westward 386(iii) The Solitary Reaper 387

10. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Lyrics 1798-1803

(i) Something Childish, but Very Natural (April 1799; publ.1800) 388

(ii) The Keepsake (1802) 388(iii) Answer to a Child's Question (1802) 389

11. THOMAS MOORE: Away with this Pouting (1801) 39012. CHARLOTTE SMITH: A Walk by the Water (1804) 39113. MARY TIGHE: Address to My Harp (c. 1804; publ. 1811) 39114. DOROTHY WORDSWORTH: A Cottage in Grasmere Vale (c. 1805;

from MS 1882) 39315. JANE TAYLOR: The Star (1806) 39416. LORD BYRON: Lyrics Early and Late

(i) The Maid of Athens (c. Jan. 1810; publ. 1812) 395(ii) She Walks in Beauty (June 1814; publ. 1815) 396(iii) Stanzas for Music ('There be none of Beauty's daughters')

1816 396(iv) Stanzas for Music ('There's not a joy') 1816 397(v) We'll Go No MoreA-Roving (28 Feb. 1817; publ. 1830) 397(vi) The Isles of Greece (Don Juan, Canto III, 86-7) 1821 398(vii) On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year (22 Jan. 1824;

publ. 1824) 40017. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Lyric Poetry l8l7~21

(i) To Constantia, Singing (late 1817; publ. Jan. 1818) 402

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(ii) Stanzas Written in Dejection, December 1818, Near Naples (publ.1824) 403

(iii) The Cloud (1820) 404(iv) Hellas: The Last Chorus (Oct. 1821; publ. 1822) 406(v) Music, When Soft Voices Die (c. 1821; publ. 1824) 408

18. JOHN KEATS: Lyrics 1818-19(i) Where Be Ye Going (21 March 1818; publ. 1848) 408(ii) The Witching Time (14 Oct. 1818; publ. 1848) 409(iii) / Had a Dove (c. Dec. 1818; publ. 1848) 410(iv) Hush, Hush! Tread Softly (c. Dec. 1818; publ. 1845) 4 1 0

(v) This Living Hand (c. Nov. 1819; from MS 1898) 41119. JOHN CLARE: Song ('Sad was the day') 1820 41120. THOMAS HOOD: Ruth (1827) 41221. CHARLES LAMB:

(i) To Louisa Martin, Whom I Used to Call 'Monkey' (1827) 413(ii) In My Own Album (1829) 413

22. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: Song: 'My heart is like the failinghearth' (1827) 4H

23. FELICIA HEMANS:(i) The Graves of a Household (1828) 415(ii) A Parting Song (1828) 416

24. CAROLINE NORTON: Dreams (1830) 41725. JAMES HOGG: W,hen Maggy Gangs Away (1831) 417

VII. The Romantic Sonnet 4191. THOMAS WARTON: TO the River Loden (1777) 4212. CHARLOTTE SMITH: from Elegiac Sonnets, 1784

(i) The Partial Muse 422(ii) Should the Lone Wanderer 422

3. WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES: from Fourteen Sonnets, 1789(i) At a Village in Scotland 423(ii) To the River Itchin 423

4. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE:

(i) Pantisocracy (1794) 424(ii) To the River Otter (1796) 424

5. MARY ROBINSON: from Sappho and Phaon (1796)(i) Sappho's Conjectures 425(ii) Her Address to the Moon 426(iii) To Phaon 426

6. CHARLES LAMB: When Last I Roved (1797) 4277. ROBERT SOUTHEY: To a Brook Near the Village ofCorston

(1797) 4278. CHARLES LLOYD: On the Death ofPriscilla Farmer (1797) 4289. ANNA SEWARD: By Derwent's Rapid Stream (1799) 428

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10. MARY TIGHE: Written at Scarborough (1799) 42911. CHARLOTTE SMITH: from Elegiac Sonnets, 1799

(i) Written at the Close of Spring 429(ii) From the Thirteenth Cantata ofMetastasio 430(iii) To the Earl of Egremont 430

12. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Sonnets of 1802 (publ. 1807)(i) / Grieved for Bonaparte (21 May) 431(ii) With Ships the Sea Was Sprinkled 431(iii) Westminster Bridge (3 Sept.) 432(iv) Milton, Thou Shouldst Be Living at this Hour 432(v) The World Is Too Much with Us 432(vi) Ere We Had Reached the Wished-for Place (4 Oct.) 433(vii) Nuns Fret Not 433(viii) Scorn Not the Sonnet (c. 1802; publ. 1827) 434

13. MARY TIGHE: TO Death (c. 1805; publ. 1811) 43414. JAMES LEIGH HUNT: Sonnets, 1814-18

(i) Written During the Author's Imprisonment, November 1814(Examiner) 435

(ii) Written in the Spring that Succeeded Imprisonment, May 1815(Examiner) 435

(iii) On a Lock of Milton's Hair (Jan. 1818, Examiner) 43615. MARY BRYAN: To My Brother (1815) 43616. LORD BYRON: Sonnets Written at the Villa Diodati, July 1816

(i) Sonnet on Chillon (1816) 437(ii) Sonnet to Lake Leman (1816) 437

17. JOHN KEATS: Sonnets of 1816-19(i) On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (Oct. 1816; publ.

Dec.) 438(ii) Great Spirits Now on Earth are Sojourning (19-20 Nov. 1816;

publ. 1817) 438(iii) To Mrs Reynolds' Cat (16 Jan. 1818; publ. 1830) 439(iv) On Sitting Down to Read 'King Lear' Once Again (22 Jan. 1818;

publ. 1838) 439(v) When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be (late Jan. 1818; publ.

1848) 440(vi) Bright Star (autumn 1819; publ. 1838) 440

18. HORACE SMITH: In Egypt's Sandy Silence (Dec. 1817; publ. 1Feb.1818) 441

ig. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY:(i) Ozymandias (Dec. 1817; publ. 11 Jan. 1818) 441(ii) Lift Not the Painted Veil (late 1819; publ. 1824) 442

20. JOHN CLARE:(i) Give Me the Gloomy Walk (1819-20; publ. 1820) 442(ii) A Wish (1819-20; publ. 1828) 443

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21. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The River Duddon: Afterthought(1820) 443

22. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: To Nature (1820) 44423. THOMAS HOOD: Written in Keats' 'Endymion' (London Magazine

1823) 44424. HARTLEY COLERIDGE: Long Time a Child (1833) 44525. FELICIA HEMANS: TO a Distant Scene (1834) 44526. CAROLINE NORTON: Be Frank with Me (1830) 44627. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: The Castle of Ckillon (1835) 446

VIII. The Gothic and Surreal 4471. WILLIAM BLAKE: Fair Elenor (Poetical Sketches 1783) 4482. HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS: Part of an Irregular Fragment Found in a

Dark Passage of the Tower (1786) 4513. ROBERT BURNS: Tarn 0'Shanter (late 1790; publ. 1791) 4524. GOTTFRIED BURGER (trans. WILLIAM TAYLOR, 1796):

(i) Lenora 459(ii) The Lass of Fair Wone 466

5. MATTHEW 'MONK' LEWIS: Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine(1796) 472

6. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Thorn (March 1798; publ. LyricalBallads) 474

7. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Christabel, Part I (April 1798; publ.1816) 481

8. ROBERT SOUTHEY: The Old Woman of Berkeley (1799) 4889. MARY ROBINSON: The Haunted Beach (1800) 493

10. WALTER SCOTT: The Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto II, stanzas 1-23)1805 496

11. JAMES HOGG: The Wife ofCrowle (1807) 50312. GEORGE CRABBE: Peter Grimes (1810) 50513. LORD BYRON: Darkness (1816) 51414. JOHN KEATS: La Belle Dame Sans Merci (21 April 1819; Indicator,

May 1820) 51615. JOHN CLARE: Superstition's Dream (lines 13-68) 1822 51816. THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES: The Bride's Tragedy II, scene iv, lines

1-64(1822) 51917. THOMAS CAMPBELL: The Last Man (1823) 52118. THOMAS HOOD: The Last Man (1826; publ. 1829) 523

IX. Romantic Comedy and Satire 5301. WILLIAM BLAKE: Songs from An Island in the Moon (c. 1784; from

MS 1907)(i) Old Corruption 532(ii) Lo, the Bat 533

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(iii) Village Cricket 5342. ROBERT BURNS: Holy Willie's Prayer (1786) 5343. MARY ROBINSON: January, 1795 (publ. 1796) 5384. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Ballad Comedies, Spring 1798:

(i) The Idiot Boy (late March; publ. Lyrical Ballads) 539(ii) from Peter Bell (late April; publ. 1819) 552(iii) We Are Seven (late April/early May; publ. Lyrical Ballads) 555

5. JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE AND GEORGE CANNING: from The Rovers

(June 1798) 5576. ROBERT SOUTHEY AND SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: The Devil's

Thoughts (1799) 5597. GEORGE CRABBE: Procrastination (1812) 5618. JAMES SMITH: The Baby's Debut, by W. W. (Rejected Addresses

1812) 5699. JAMES HOGG: from The Poetic Mirror (1816)

(i) James Rigg (lines 1-42) 572(ii) Isabelle 573

10. JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE: 'Irrational Gigantic Anger' (Whistlecraft,Canto III, stanzas 1-7,15-19) 1818 574

11. JOHN KEATS: Old Meg She Was a Gypsy (2 July 1818; publ.

1838) 57712. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Sin (Peter Bell the Third IV, 1-65) 1819;

publ. 1839 57813. LORD BYRON: Juan and Julia (Don Juan I, stanzas 54-117,133-87)

1819 58014. ROBERT SOUTHEY: The Cataract ofLodore (1823) 60715. THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK: The Legend of Manor Hall (c. 1824; publ.

1837) 61016. THOMAS HOOD: Mary's Ghost (1826) 61417. CAROLINE NORTON: First Love (1830) 616

X. Protest and Politics 6171. WILLIAM COWPER: Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce (1788) 6192. HANNAH MORE: from Slavery: A Poem (1788) 6203. ANN YEARSLEY: Death of Luco (from On the Inhumanity of the Slave

Trade) 1788 6224. ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD: On the Expected General Rising of the

French Nation in 1792 (publ. 1825) 6245. HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS: France 1792 (from To Dr Moore) 1792 6256. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Female Vagrant, stanzas 33-6, 40-43

(1793-4; publ. Lyrical Ballads 1798) 6267. ROBERT BURNS: For A' That and A' That (1795) 6298. ROBERT SOUTHEY: Poems on the Slave Trade (April 1798; publ.

1799) 630

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9. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE:(i) France: An Ode (1798) 631(ii) 'Dainty Terms for Fratricide' (Fears in Solitude, 90-93,

101-20)1798 63310. ROBERT SOUTHEY: The Battle of Blenheim (1799) 63411. ROBERT BLOOMFIELD: The Farmer's Boy (from Summer) 1801

63612. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH:

I. Sonnets 1802 (publ. 1807)(i) On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic 637(ii) To ToussaintL'Ouverture 638(iii) We Had a Fellow-Passenger 638

II. Prelude Scenes from the French Revolution (1804; publ. 1850/from MS 1926)

(i) 'Golden Hours': Calais and the Rhone, July 1790 (VI, 352-69,380-413) 639

(ii) A Tourist's Unconcern: Paris, Dec. 1791 (IX, 40-71) 640(iii) Among Royalists: Blois, spring 1792 (IX, 127-68) 641(iv) 'A Patriot': Blois, early summer 1792 (IX, 294-9, 511-34) 642(v) 'Sleep No More': Paris, Oct. 1792 (X, 24-82) 643(vi) War and Alienation: London and Wales, 1793-4

(X, 201-74) 644(vii) 'Eternal Justice': Morecambe Sands, Aug. 1794 (X, 466-76,

515-56) 64613. JOHN CLARE:

(i) Helpstone (lines 95-134) c. 1813; publ. 1820 648(ii) Lamentations of Round-Oak Waters (lines 157-96) 1818; publ.

1821 64914. JAMES LEIGH HUNT: from The St James's Phenomenon

(1814) 65015. LORD BYRON: Napoleon's Farewell (1814; publ. 1816) 65116. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY:

(i) The Mask of Anarchy (Sept. 1819; publ. 1832) 652(ii) England in 1819 (23 Dec; publ. 1839) 662

17. LORD BYRON: from The Vision of Judgment (1822) 66318. THOMAS HOOD: Ode to H. Bodkin, Esq., Secretary to the Society for

the Suppression of Mendicity (1824) 67319. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: The Factory (1835) 67520. CAROLINE NORTON: A Voicefrom the Factories (stanzas 34-48)

1836 678

XL Poets in Relationship 6821. WILLIAM BLAKE: and Catherine Blake, I Love the Jocund Dance

(Poetical Sketches 1783) 684

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2. ROBERT BURNS:

(i) and Elizabeth Paton, A Poet's Welcome to his Love-begottenDaughter (May 1785; publ. 1801) 685

(11) and Agnes Craif McLehose, Ae Fond Kiss (Dec. 1787; publ.1792) 687

(m) and Jean Armour (by now Mrs Burns), I Love My Jean (April1788; publ. 1790) 687

(iv) and Mary Campbell, Highland Mary (Nov. 1792; publ.

1799) 6883. CHARLOTTE SMITH: To My Children (1788) 6894. MARY ROBINSON: and General Sir Banastre Tarleton, Written

Between Dover and Calais, July 1792 (1793) 6905. WILLIAM COWPER: and Mary Unwin, To Mary (autumn 1793; publ.

1803) 6926. CHARLES LAMB: To Mary Ann Lamb (1795; publ. 1797) 6947. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE:

(i) Composed on a Journey Homeward, the Author Having ReceivedIntelligence of the Birth of a Son, September 20,1796(1797) 694

(ii) Letter to Sara Hutchinson: 4 April 1802, Sunday Evening (fromMS 1936) 695

8. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH:

(I) and Dorothy Wordsworth(i) To My Sister (March 1798; publ. Lyrical Ballads 1798) 704(ii) from Home at Grasmere (March 1800; publ. from MS

1888) 705(iii) To a Butterfly ('Stay near me') spring 1802; publ. 1807 707(iv) The Sparrow's Nest (spring 1802; publ. 1807) 707(v) 'Child of My Parents' (1805 Prelude XIII 210-46) publ. 1850/

from MS 1926 708(II) and Caroline (Vallon) Wordsworth, It is a Beauteous Evening

(Aug. 1802; publ. 1807) 709(HI) and Mary Wordsworth (nee Hutchinson)

(i) She Was a Phantom of Delight (Feb. 1804; publ. 1807) 709(ii) 'Another Maid There Was' (1805 Prelude VI 233-9, XI 215-

22) publ. 1850/from MS 1926 710(rv) and Catharine Wordsworth, Surprised by Joy (c. 1813-14; publ.

1815) 7119. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY:

(I) and Harriet Shelley (nee Westbrook), To Harriet (1812) 711(II) and Mary Shelley (nee Godwin), from Dedication to Laon and

Cythna 1-46, 91-126 (1817) 712(m) and Teresa Viviani, Epipsychidion (1821) 714

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(iv) and Jane Williams(i) To Jane with a Guitar (June 1822; publ. 1832) 729(ii) To Jane: The Stars Were Twinkling (June 1822; publ.

1832) 73110. LORD BYRON:

(I) and Lady Frances Webster, When We Two Parted (Aug.-Sept.1815; publ. 1816) 732

(II) and Lady Byron, Fare Thee Well (1816) 733(in) and Augusta Leigh

(i) Stanzas to Augusta ('When all around') 1816 735(ii) Stanzas to Augusta ('Though the day of my destiny')

1816 737(iv) and the Countess Guiccioli, Stanzas to the River Po (April 1819;

publ. 1824) 738(v) and Loukas Chalandritsanos, / Watched Thee (April 1824; from

MS 1887) 74011. JOHN KEATS: and Fanny Brawne

(i) The Day Is Gone (10 Oct. 1819; publ. 1838) 741(ii) / Cry Your Mercy (mid Oct. 1819; publ. 1848) 741(iii) Ode to Fanny (Feb. 1820; publ. 1848) 742

12. JOHN CLARE: and Mary Joyce(i) Song ('Mary leave thy lowly cot') 1819-20; publ. 1821 743(ii) My Mary (1820) 744(iii) Ballad ('Mary, fate lent me a moment') 1819-20; publ.

1821 74713. FELICIA HEMANS: The Dreaming Child (1830) 74814. CAROLINE NORTON:

(I) and her brother, Recollections (1830) 749(II) and her children, The Mother's Heart (1836) 750

15. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: To My Brother (1835) 752

XII. On Poets and Poetry 7541. MARY SCOTT: on Anna Laetitia Barbauld (nee Aikin), from The

Female Advocate (1774) 7562. ROBERT BURNS:

(i) Epistle to J. Lapraik, An Old Scotch Bard (April 1785; publ.1786) 758

(ii) I Am a Bard (c. autumn 1785; publ. 1799) 7603. HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS: Sonnet on Reading 'The Mountain Daisy'

by Burns (c. 1787; publ. 1791) 7624. JOANNA BAILLIE: An Address to the Muses (lines 49-102) 1790 7625. WILLIAM BLAKE:

(i) Preface to Europe, A Prophecy (engraved 1794) 764

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(ii) 'I Come In Self-Annihilation' (Milton plate 41, 2-28) c. 1804,engraved c. 1808-10 765

(iii) 'Trembling I Sit' (Jerusalem, plate 5,16-20) c. 1804-7;engraved c. 1818 765

6. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Nehemiah Higginbottom Sonnets(Nov. 1797)

(i)'Pensive at Eve' 766(ii)'Oh I Do Love Thee' 766(iii) 'And This Reft House' 767

7. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Thoughts on Poetic Imagination,1798-1806

(i) from the Prologue to Peter Bell (April 1798; publ. 1819) 767(ii) The Glad Preamble (c. 18 Nov. 1799; publ. Prelude 1850/from

MS 1926) 771(iii) 'A Dedicated Spirit' (1805 Prelude IV 316-45; publ. 1850/from

MS 1926) 772(iv) Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peek Castle in a Storm

(May-June 1806; publ. 1807) 7738. ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD: To Mr Coleridge (1799) 7759. MARY ROBINSON:

(i) Ode Inscribed to the Infant Son ofS. T. Coleridge, Esq., Born 14Sept 1800 (lines 67-102) Sept 1800; publ. 1806 776

(ii) To the Poet Coleridge (Oct. 1800; publ. 1806) 77710. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Portraits of Coleridge 779

(i) from The Castle of Indolence Stanzas (May 1802; publ.1807) 779

(ii) 'A Mind Debarred' (1805 Prelude VI, 239-329) 1804; publ. 1850/from MS 1926 780

(iii) A Complaint (c. Dec. 1806; publ. 1807) 78211. MARY TIGHE: 'Dreams of Delight, Farewell' (Psyche, concluding

stanzas) 1802-3; publ. 1805 78312. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: To William Wordsworth (Jan. 1807;

publ. 1817) 78413. LORD BYRON: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (lines 1-38, 85-

148)1809 78714. JAMES LEIGH HUNT: Feast of the Poets (lines 204-41) 1811; expanded

1814 78915. LORD BYRON: "Tis to Create' (Childe Harold III, stanzas 3-6) April

1816; publ. 1817 79016. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: To Wordsworth (1816) 79217. JOHN KEATS: 792

(i) Sleep and Poetry (lines 96-162) 1817 792(ii) The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream (Canto I, lines 1-27, 87-294)

July-Sept. 1819; 1856 794

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l8. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: 799(i) Julian and Maddalo: A Conversation (lines 1-67) Oct. 1818; publ.

1824 799(ii) Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats (stanzas 1-8,

39-58)1822 802lg. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: Sappho's Song (1824) 80920. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Work Without H'ope (21 Feb. 1825;

publ. 1828) 80921. THOMAS HOOD: False Poets and True (1827) 81022. FELICIA HEMANS:

(i) The Grave of a Poetess (Records of Woman 1828) 810(ii) Properzia Rossi (Records of Woman 1828) 812(iii) To Wordsworth (1828) 815

23. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Extempore Effusion Upon the Death ofJames Hogg (1835) 816

24. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON:(i) Felicia Hemans (c. 1835; publ. 1838) 818(ii) The Poet's Lot (c. 1837; publ. 1841) 820

NOTES 823

SHORT BIOGRAPHIES 978

INDEX OF POETS AND THEIR WORKS 985

INDEX OF TITLES 991

INDEX OF FIRST LINES 997