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THE NEW PENGUIN BOOK OF

Edited by Jonathan and Jessica Wordsworth

PENGUIN BOOKS CONTENTS

PREFACE xxiii INTRODUCTION: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD xxvii 1. 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 1784) 4 2. ROBERT BURNS: To a Mountain Daisy (1786) 5 3. MARY ROBINSON: A Summer Morning (1794; publ. 1804) 7 4. : Kubla Khan (Nov. 1797; publ. 1816) 8 5. : Old Familiar Faces (1798) 10 6. : Lucy Poems (winter 1798-9; publ. 1800) (i) (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) 16 8. : The Inchcape Rock (1803) 17 9. WILLIAM BLAKE: And Did Those Feet (1802-4; engraved Milton c. 1808) 19 10. : Lochinvar (Marmion 1808) 20 11. : Oh! Blame Not the Bard (1810) 21 12. : 'Revelry by Night' (Gkilde Harold III, stanzas 16-18, 21-8) April 1816; publ. Dec. 22 13. : To Autumn (Sept. 1819; publ. 1820) 25 CONTENTS

14. : To a Skylark (1820) 26 15. JAMES HOGG: When the Kye Comes Hame (1823) 29 16. : The Shepherd's Calendar (July, 90-131) c. 1824; publ. 1827 31 17. THOMAS HOOD: I Remember, I Remember (1826) 32 18. : Casabianca (1824; publ. 1826) 33 19. : Lines of Life (1829) 35 20. : My Arab Steed (1830) 38 21. JAMES : Abou Ben Adhem (1834) 39 //. Narratives of Love 40 1. MARY ROBINSON: from andPhaon (1796) 41 2. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Ruined Cottage (1797-8; Excursion 1814 from MS 1968) 52 3. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Love (Nov. 1799; publ. 1817) 64 4. 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 II (1809) 76 7. LORD BYRON: The Bride of Abydos (stanzas 22-7) 1814 82 8. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Alastor (lines 140-222) 1816 87 9. JAMES LEIGH HUNT: Paulo and Francesca (Rimini III, lines 482- 564) 1816 89 jio. THOMAS MOORE: The Fire-Worshippers (from Lalla Rookh III, lines 201-453)1817 92 11. JOHN KEATS: The Eve of St Agnes (Jan.-Feb. 1819; publ. 1820) 99 12. LORD BYRON: Juan and Haidee (from Don Juan II-IV) 1819-21 110 13. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: The Indian Bride (Improvisatrice 1823) 129 14. FELICIA HEMANS: Arabella Stuart (Records of Woman 1828) 131 15. CAROLINE NORTON: The Faithless Knight (1830) 138 ///. Romantic Solitude, Suffering and Endurance 140 1. WILLIAM COWPER: Crazy Kate (Task I, 534-56) 1785 141 2. JOANNA BAILLIE: The Storm-Beat Maid (1790) 142 3. CHARLOTTE SMITH: The Female Exile (Nov. 1792; publ. 1797) 147 4. WILLIAM BLAKE: Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) 148 5. ROBERT SOUTHEY: Mary the Maid of the Inn (1797) 154 6. 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 CONTENTS

(iii) The Mad Mother (Lyrical Ballads 1798) 162 (iv) Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman (Lyrical Ballads 1798) 164 (v) (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 177 7. 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) 199 9. MARY BRYAN: The Visit (lines 45-126) 1815 200 10. LORD BYRON: The Prisoner of Chillon (1816) 202 11. JOHN KEATS: Isabella, or The Pot of Basil (stanzas 32-63) April 1818; publ. 1820 212 12. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Final Moments (The CenciV, scenes iii-iv) 1819 220 13. LORD BYRON: The Shipwreck (from Don Juan II) 1819 228 14. THOMAS HOOD: The Dream of Eugene Aram (1826) 234 15. FELICIA HEMANS: Indian Woman's Death Song (Records of Woman 1828) 240 16. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: She Sat Alone Beside Her Hearth (c. 1835; publ. 1839) 242 IV. Ennobling Interchange: Man and Nature 246 1. ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD: (i) The Mouse's Petition (1773) 248 (ii) from A Summer's Evening's Meditation (lines 17-98) 1773 250 2. WILLIAM COWPER: The Winter Evening (Task IV, 267-332) 1785 252 3. ROBERT BURNS: To a Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November 1785 (1786) 254 4. 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 CONTENTS

(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. : from Coombe Ellen (1798) 296 7. CHARLOTTE SMITH: Beachy Head (lines 346-505) c. 1805; publ. 1807 297 8. AMELIA OPIE: Stanzas Written Under Aeolus' Harp (1808) 300 9. 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 318 m 13. SAMUEL PALMER: Twilight Time (lines 1-24) c. 1827; fr° MS ^ 1942 319 14. JOHN CLARE: This Leaning Tree with Ivy Overhung (early 1830s; from MS 1979) 320 15. FELICIA HEMANS: Remembrance of Nature (1835; publ. 1838) 321 16. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: (i) Scale Force, Cumberland (c. 1836; publ. 1839) 322 (ii) Fountains Abbey (c. 1836; publ. 1839) 323

V. Romantic Odes 324 1. ROBERT BURNS: Despondency, An Ode (1786) 325 2. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Immortality Ode (spring 1802/ Feb. 1804; publ. 1807) 327 3. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Dejection: An Ode (summer 1802; publ. 4 Oct.) 332 4. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (July 1816; publ. Jan. 1817) 336 5. 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 CONTENTS

6. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Ode to the West Wind (Oct. 1819; publ. 1820) 347 VI. Romantic Lyric and Song 351 1. WILLIAM BLAKE: Song ('How sweet I roamed') Poetical Sketches 1783 354 2. 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) 373 7. MARY ROBINSON: A Thousand Torments (1797) 374 CONTENTS

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) ('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) 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) 390 12. CHARLOTTE SMITH: A Walk by the Water (1804) 391 13. MARY TIGHE: Address to My Harp (c. 1804; publ. 1811) 391 14. : A Cottage in Grasmere Vale (c. 1805; from MS 1882) 393 15. JANE TAYLOR: The Star (1806) 394 16. 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) 400 17. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Lyric Poetry l8l7~21 (i) To Constantia, Singing (late 1817; publ. Jan. 1818) 402 CONTENTS

(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) 410 (v) This Living Hand (c. Nov. 1819; from MS 1898) 411 19. JOHN CLARE: Song ('Sad was the day') 1820 411 20. THOMAS HOOD: Ruth (1827) 412 21. 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 failing hearth' (1827) 4H 23. FELICIA HEMANS: (i) The Graves of a Household (1828) 415 (ii) A Parting Song (1828) 416 24. CAROLINE NORTON: Dreams (1830) 417 25. JAMES HOGG: W,hen Maggy Gangs Away (1831) 417 VII. The Romantic 419 1. THOMAS WARTON: TO the River Loden (1777) 421 2. 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) (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) 427 7. ROBERT SOUTHEY: To a Brook Near the Village ofCorston (1797) 427 8. CHARLES LLOYD: On the Death ofPriscilla Farmer (1797) 428 9. ANNA SEWARD: By Derwent's Rapid Stream (1799) 428 XIV CONTENTS

10. MARY TIGHE: Written at Scarborough (1799) 429 11. 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) 434 14. 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) 436 15. MARY BRYAN: To My Brother (1815) 436 16. 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. : In Egypt's Sandy Silence (Dec. 1817; publ. 1 Feb.1818) 441 ig. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: (i) (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 CONTENTS

21. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The River Duddon: Afterthought (1820) 443 22. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: To Nature (1820) 444 23. THOMAS HOOD: Written in Keats' 'Endymion' (London Magazine 1823) 444 24. : Long Time a Child (1833) 445 25. FELICIA HEMANS: TO a Distant Scene (1834) 445 26. CAROLINE NORTON: Be Frank with Me (1830) 446 27. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: The Castle of Ckillon (1835) 446 VIII. The Gothic and Surreal 447 1. WILLIAM BLAKE: Fair Elenor (Poetical Sketches 1783) 448 2. HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS: Part of an Irregular Fragment Found in a Dark Passage of the Tower (1786) 451 3. ROBERT BURNS: Tarn 0'Shanter (late 1790; publ. 1791) 452 4. 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. Lyrical Ballads) 474 7. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Christabel, Part I (April 1798; publ. 1816) 481 8. ROBERT SOUTHEY: The Old Woman of Berkeley (1799) 488 9. 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) 503 12. : Peter Grimes (1810) 505 13. LORD BYRON: Darkness (1816) 514 14. JOHN KEATS: La Belle Dame Sans Merci (21 April 1819; Indicator, May 1820) 516 15. JOHN CLARE: Superstition's Dream (lines 13-68) 1822 518 16. THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES: The Bride's Tragedy II, scene iv, lines 1-64(1822) 519 17. THOMAS CAMPBELL: The Last Man (1823) 521 18. THOMAS HOOD: The Last Man (1826; publ. 1829) 523 IX. Romantic Comedy and Satire 530 1. WILLIAM BLAKE: Songs from An Island in the Moon (c. 1784; from MS 1907) (i) Old Corruption 532 (ii) Lo, the Bat 533 CONTENTS

(iii) Village Cricket 534 2. ROBERT BURNS: Holy Willie's Prayer (1786) 534 3. MARY ROBINSON: January, 1795 (publ. 1796) 538 4. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Ballad Comedies, Spring 1798: (i) (late March; publ. Lyrical Ballads) 539 (ii) from (late April; publ. 1819) 552 (iii) (late April/early May; publ. Lyrical Ballads) 555 5. JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE AND GEORGE CANNING: from The Rovers (June 1798) 557 6. ROBERT SOUTHEY AND SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: The Devil's Thoughts (1799) 559 7. GEORGE CRABBE: Procrastination (1812) 561 8. : The Baby's Debut, by W. W. ( 1812) 569 9. 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) 577 12. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Sin (Peter Bell the Third IV, 1-65) 1819; publ. 1839 578 13. LORD BYRON: Juan and Julia (Don Juan I, stanzas 54-117,133-87) 1819 580 14. ROBERT SOUTHEY: The Cataract ofLodore (1823) 607 15. THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK: The Legend of Manor Hall (c. 1824; publ. 1837) 610 16. THOMAS HOOD: Mary's Ghost (1826) 614 17. CAROLINE NORTON: First Love (1830) 616

X. Protest and Politics 617 1. WILLIAM COWPER: Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce (1788) 619 2. HANNAH MORE: from Slavery: A Poem (1788) 620 3. ANN YEARSLEY: Death of Luco (from On the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade) 1788 622 4. ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD: On the Expected General Rising of the French Nation in 1792 (publ. 1825) 624 5. HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS: France 1792 (from To Dr Moore) 1792 625 6. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Female Vagrant, stanzas 33-6, 40-43 (1793-4; publ. Lyrical Ballads 1798) 626 7. ROBERT BURNS: For A' That and A' That (1795) 629 8. ROBERT SOUTHEY: Poems on the Slave Trade (April 1798; publ. 1799) 630 XV11 CONTENTS

9. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: (i) France: An Ode (1798) 631 (ii) 'Dainty Terms for Fratricide' (Fears in Solitude, 90-93, 101-20)1798 633 10. ROBERT SOUTHEY: The Battle of Blenheim (1799) 634 11. ROBERT BLOOMFIELD: The Farmer's Boy (from Summer) 1801 636 12. 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 (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) 646 13. JOHN CLARE: (i) Helpstone (lines 95-134) c. 1813; publ. 1820 648 (ii) Lamentations of Round-Oak Waters (lines 157-96) 1818; publ. 1821 649 14. JAMES LEIGH HUNT: from The St James's Phenomenon (1814) 650 15. LORD BYRON: 's Farewell (1814; publ. 1816) 651 16. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: (i) The Mask of Anarchy (Sept. 1819; publ. 1832) 652 (ii) in 1819 (23 Dec; publ. 1839) 662 17. LORD BYRON: from The Vision of Judgment (1822) 663 18. THOMAS HOOD: Ode to H. Bodkin, Esq., Secretary to the Society for the Suppression of Mendicity (1824) 673 19. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: The Factory (1835) 675 20. CAROLINE NORTON: A Voicefrom the Factories (stanzas 34-48) 1836 678 XL Poets in Relationship 682 1. WILLIAM BLAKE: and Catherine Blake, I Love the Jocund Dance (Poetical Sketches 1783) 684 XV111 CONTENTS

2. ROBERT BURNS: (i) and Elizabeth Paton, A Poet's Welcome to his Love-begotten Daughter (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 (April 1788; publ. 1790) 687 (iv) and Mary Campbell, Highland Mary (Nov. 1792; publ. 1799) 688 3. CHARLOTTE SMITH: To My Children (1788) 689 4. MARY ROBINSON: and General Sir Banastre Tarleton, Written Between Dover and Calais, July 1792 (1793) 690 5. WILLIAM COWPER: and Mary Unwin, To Mary (autumn 1793; publ. 1803) 692 6. CHARLES LAMB: To Mary Ann Lamb (1795; publ. 1797) 694 7. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: (i) Composed on a Journey Homeward, the Author Having Received Intelligence of the Birth of a Son, September 20,1796 (1797) 694 (ii) Letter to Sara Hutchinson: 4 April 1802, Sunday Evening (from MS 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) 711 9. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: (I) and Harriet Shelley (nee Westbrook), To Harriet (1812) 711 (II) and (nee Godwin), from Dedication to Laon and Cythna 1-46, 91-126 (1817) 712 (m) and Teresa Viviani, Epipsychidion (1821) 714 XIX CONTENTS

(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) 731 10. 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) 740 11. 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 747 13. FELICIA HEMANS: The Dreaming Child (1830) 748 14. 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 754 1. MARY SCOTT: on Anna Laetitia Barbauld (nee Aikin), from The Female Advocate (1774) 756 2. 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) 760 3. HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS: Sonnet on Reading 'The Mountain Daisy' by Burns (c. 1787; publ. 1791) 762 4. JOANNA BAILLIE: An Address to the Muses (lines 49-102) 1790 762 5. WILLIAM BLAKE: (i) Preface to Europe, A Prophecy (engraved 1794) 764 CONTENTS

(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) 773 8. ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD: To Mr Coleridge (1799) 775 9. MARY ROBINSON: (i) Ode Inscribed to the Infant Son ofS. T. Coleridge, Esq., Born 14 Sept 1800 (lines 67-102) Sept 1800; publ. 1806 776 (ii) To the Poet Coleridge (Oct. 1800; publ. 1806) 777 10. 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) 782 11. MARY TIGHE: 'Dreams of Delight, Farewell' (Psyche, concluding stanzas) 1802-3; publ. 1805 783 12. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: To William Wordsworth (Jan. 1807; publ. 1817) 784 13. LORD BYRON: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (lines 1-38, 85- 148)1809 787 14. JAMES LEIGH HUNT: Feast of the Poets (lines 204-41) 1811; expanded 1814 789 15. LORD BYRON: "Tis to Create' (Childe Harold III, stanzas 3-6) April 1816; publ. 1817 790 16. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: To Wordsworth (1816) 792 17. 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 CONTENTS 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 802 lg. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: Sappho's Song (1824) 809 20. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Work Without H'ope (21 Feb. 1825; publ. 1828) 809 21. THOMAS HOOD: False Poets and True (1827) 810 22. 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 of James 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