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Preface to the Eighth Edition
Acknowledgements
The Romantic Period
I. Introduction
II. Timeline
Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743-1825):
The Mouse's Petition
An Inventory of the Furniture in Dr. Priestley's Study
A Summer Evening's Meditation
Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade
The Rights of Woman
To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible
Washing Day
Charlotte Smith (1749-1806):
Elegiac Sonnets
Written at the Close of Spring
To Sleep
To Night
Written in the Church-Yard at Middleton in Sussex
On being Cautioned against Walking on an Headland Overlooking the Sea, Because It Was Frequented by a Lunatic
The Sea View
The Emigrants
Beachy Head
Mary Robinson (1757?-1800):
January, 1795
London's Summer Morning
The Camp
The Poor Singing Dame
The Haunted Beach
To the Poet Coleridge
William Blake (1757-1827):
All Religions Are One
There Is No Natural Religion <a>
There Is No Natural Religion <b>
Songs of Innocence and of Experience--
Songs of Innocence:
I. Introduction
II. The Ecchoing Green
III. The Lamb
IV. The Little Black Boy
V. The Chimney Sweep
VI. The Divine Image
VII. Holy Thursday
VIII. Nurse's Song
IX. Infant Joy
Songs of Experience:
I. Introduction
II. Earth's Answer
III. The Clod & the Pebble
IV. Holy Thursday
V. The Chimney Sweep
VI. Nurse's Song
VII. The Sick Rose
VIII.The Fly
IX. The Tyger
X. My Pretty Rose Tree
XI. Ah Sun-flower
XII. The Garden of Love
XIII. London
XIV. The Human Abstract
XV. Infant Sorrow
XVI. A Poison Tree
XVII. To Tirzah
XVIII. A Divine Image
The Book of Thel
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
A Song of Liberty
Blake's Notebook
Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau
Never pain to tell thy love
I asked a thief
And did those feet
From: A Vision of the Last Judgement
Two Letters on Sight and Vision
Robert Burns (1759-1796):
green grow the rashes
Holy Willie's Prayer
To a Mouse
To a Louse
Auld Lang Syne
Afton Water
Tam o' Shanter: A Tale
Such a parcel of rogues in a nation
Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn
A Red, Red Rose
Song: For a' that and a' that
The Revolution Controversy and the "Spirit of the Age"
Richard Price: From: A Discourse on the Love of Our Country
Edmund Burke: From: Reflections on the Revolution in France
Mary Wollstonecraft: From: A Vindication of the Rights of Men
Thomas Paine: From: Rights of Man
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797):
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman:
I. Introduction
II. Chap. 2. The Prevailing Opinion of a Sexual Character Discussed
III. From: Chap. 4. Observations on the State of Degradation
Letters Written during a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark:
I. Advertisement
II. Letter 1
III. Letter 4
IV. Letter 8
V. Letter 19
Joanna Baillie (1762-1851):
A Winter's Day
A Mother to Her Waking Infant
Up! quit thy bower
Song: Woo'd and married and a'
Address to a Steam Vessel
Maria Edgeworth (1758-1849):
The Irish Incognito
William Wordsworth (1770-1850):
Lyrical Ballads
Simon Lee
We Are Seven
Lines Written in Early Spring
Expostulation and Reply
The Tables Turned
The Thorn
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
Preface to Lyrical Ballads:
I. <The Subject and Language of Poetry>
II. <"What Is a Poet?">
III. <"Emotion Recollected in Tranquillity">
Strange fits of passion have I known
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Three years she grew
A slumber did my spirit seal
I travelled among unknown men
Lucy Gray
Nutting
The Ruined Cottage
Michael
Resolution and Independence
I wandered lonely as a cloud
My heart leaps up
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Ode to Duty
The Solitary Reaper
Elegiac Stanzas
Sonnets:
I. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
II. It is a beauteous evening
III. To Toussaint l'Ouverture
IV. September 1st, 1802
V. London, 1802
VI. The world is too much with us
VII. Surprised by joy
VIII. Mutability
IX. Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg
The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet's Mind
I. Book First. Introduction, Childhood, and School-time
II. Book Second. School-time continued
III. Book Third. Residence at Cambridge
<Arrival at St. John's College. "The Glory of My Youth">
IV. Book Fourth. Summer Vacation
<The Walks with His Terrier. The Circuit of the Lake>
<The Walk Home from the Dance. The Discharged Soldier>
V. Book Fifth. Books
<The Dream of the Arab>
<The Boy of Winander>
<"The Mystery of Words">
VI. Book Sixth. Cambridge, and the Alps
<"Human Nature Seeming Born Again">
<Crossing Simplon Pass>
VII. Book Seventh. Residence in London
<The Blind Beggar. Bartholomew Fair>
VIII. Book Eighth. Retrospect, Love of Nature leading to Love of Man
<The Shepherd in the Mist>
IX. Book Ninth. Residence in France
<Paris and Orleans. Becomes a "Patriot">
X. Book Tenth. France continued
<The Revolution: Paris and England>
<The Reign of Terror. Nightmares>
XI. Book Eleventh. France, concluded
<Retrospect: "Bliss Was it in That Dawn." Recourse to "Reason's Naked Self">
<Crisis, Breakdown, and Recovery>
XII. Book Twelfth. Imagination and Taste, how impaired and restored
<Spots of Time>
XIII. Book Thirteenth. Subject concluded
<Poetry of "Unassuming Things">
<Discovery of His Poetic Subject. Salisbury Plain. Sight of "a New World">
XIV. Book Fourteenth. Conclusion
<The Vision on Mount Snowdon>
<Conclusion: "The Mind of Man">
Dorothy Wordsworth (1771-1855):
From: The Alfoxden Journal
From: The Grasmere Journal
Grasmere--A Fragment
Thoughts on My Sick-Bed
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832):
The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Introduction
Proud Maisie
Redgauntlet:
I. Wandering Willie's Tale
Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834):
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