Poetry

For most of the twentieth century, poetry by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats dominated study of the British Romantic period. Blake was canonized in the 1960s. Since then, a large number of poets—both women and men from different class backgrounds and writing in a variety of genres and styles—have re-entered the field. While our courses continue to be based on the traditional paradigm, they also include reclaimed voices and focus on the resultant tensions and contradictions that define the new and evolving canon of Romantic poetry.

Note that books of poems are featured; single poems that are required reading in our courses appear in quotation marks directly beneath the book or publication title, with dates of composition in brackets when significantly earlier.

For a more extensive listing of Romantic era texts by individual writers, see the web pages under Research Sources/Sources on Web, especially Romantic Links.

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Aikin, Lucy

Epistles on Women (1810)

Baillie, Joanna

Fugitive Verses (1790, 1840)
"A Winter's Day"
"Address to the Muses"
" Lines on the Death of Sir Walter Scott"
A Series of Plays [on the Passions] (1798)
"Count Basil: A Tragedy"

Barbauld, Anna Letitia

Poems (1773)
Hymns in Prose for Children (1781)
Epistle to William Wilberforce (1791)
Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1812)
Works (1825)
"The Rights of Woman"
"To Mr. S.T. Coleridge"

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell

 

The Bride's Tragedy (1822)
Death's Jest Book (1850)

Blake, William

Songs of Innocence(1789)
Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794)
The Marriage of Heaven & Hell (1793)
Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793)
America a Prophecy (1793)
The Book of Urizen (1794)
Vala or the Four Zoas ([1797-1807] 1893)
Milton (1811-18)
Jerusalem (1820-27)

Bloomfield, Robert

The Farmer's Boy (1800)

Byron, George Gordon

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, A Romaunt (1812-1818)
The Corsair. A Tale (1814)
Manfred, A Dramatic Poem (1817)
Don Juan (1818-1924)
Cain. A Mystery (1821)
The Vision of Judgment (1822)

Clare, John

Poems, Descriptive of Rural Life (1820)
"My Mary"
The Shepherd's Calender (1827)
The Life of John Clare (1865)
"I Am" [1846]
Poems of John Clare (1920)
"The Peasant Poet" [1842]

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

Fears in Solitude (1798)
"Frost at Midnight"
Lyrical Ballads (1798)
"The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere"
The Morning Post(1802)
"Dejection: an Ode "
Christabel, Kubla Khan...The Pains of Sleep
(1816)
"Christabel [1798]
"Kubla Khan: A Vision in a Dream" [1798]
Sibylline Leaves (1817)
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
Poetical Works (1828)
"The Eolian Harp" [1795]

William Cowper

Olney Hymns (1779)
The Task (1785)
Poems (1798)

Crabbe, George

The Village (1783)
The Borough (1810)

Darwin, Erasmus

The Botanic Garden (1791-99)
The Temple of Nature (1803)

Hemans, Felicia

The Siege of Valencia (1823)
The League of the Alps and Other Poems (1826)
"The Graves of a Household"
"Casabianca"
Records of Women (1828)
"The Homes of England"
Songs of the Affections (1830)

Hunt, Leigh

The Story of Rimini (1816)

Keats, John

Endymion. A Poetic Romance (1818)
The Indicator (1820)
"La Belle Dame sans Merci"
Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of Saint Agnes, Hyperion, and other Poems (1820)
"The Eve of Saint Agnes"
"Ode to Psyche"
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
"Ode to a Nightingale"
"To Autumn"
"Hyperion: A Fragment"

Lamb, Charles

Blank Verse (1798)

Landon, Letitia Elizabeth (L.E.L.)

The Improvisatrice (1824)
The Troubadour (1825)
--"The Proud Ladye"
Erinna (1827)

Landor, Walter Savage

Gebir (1798)

Lee, Richard “Citizen”

Flowers from Sharon (1794)
Songs from the Rock [1795]

Moore, Thomas

Irish Melodies (1808-34)
Lalla Rookh (1817)

More, Hannah

Sensibility (1782)
Bas Blue; or Conversation (1786)
Slavery, A Poem (1788)

Opie, Amelia Alderson

Poems (1802)
The Warrior's Return and Other Poems (1808)

Owenson, Sydney

The Lay of an Irish Harp (1807)

Polwhele, Richard

The Unsex'd Females (1798)

Robinson, Mary

Poems (1791)
Sappho and Phaon: In a Series of Legitimate Sonnets (1796)
Lyrical Tales (1800)
"The Haunted Beach"
Poetical Works (1806)
"A London Summer Morning"
"January, 1795"
"The Progress of Liberty"
"To the Poet Coleridge"

Scott, Walter

 

 

The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
Marmion (1808)
The Lady of the Lake (1810)

Seward, Anna

Collection of Original Sonnets (1799)

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Alastor; or the Spirit of Solitude (1816)
History of a Six Weeks' Tour [Mary Shelley] (1817)
"Mont Blanc"
The Examiner (1817-18)
"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
"Ozymandias"
The Mask of Anarchy (1819)
The Cenci, A Tragedy (1819)
Prometheus Unbound...Other Poems (1820)
“Ode to the West Wind”
“To a Skylark”
Adonais: Elegy on Death of...Keats (1821)
Poetical Works (1839)
"Sonnet: England in 1819" [1819]
"Song to the Men of England" [1819]

Smith, Charlotte

Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems (1784-97)
The Emigrants (1793)
Beachy Head , and Other Poems (1807)

Southey, Robert

Poems (1797-99)
Thalaba the Destroyer (1801)
A Vision of Judgement (1821)

Taylor, Jane

Essays in Rhyme on Morals and Manners (1816)

Thelwall, John

Poems Written in Close Confinement in the Tower (1796)
Poems Chiefly Written in Retirement (1801)

Tighe, Mary

Psyche, with Other Poems (1811)

Williams, Helen Maria

Peru.A Poem in Six Cantos (1784, 1786)
Poems (1786)
Letters from France (1792-96)
"To Dr. Moore"
Poems on Various Subjects (1823)

Wordsworth, Dorothy

Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth (1941)
"The Alfoxden Journal" [1798]
"The Grasmere Journals" [1800-03]

Wordsworth, William

Lyrical Ballads (1798, 1800)
The Prelude ([1805], 1850)
Poems in Two Volumes (1807)
“Resolution and Independence”
"My Heart Leaps Up"
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
“Ode. Intimations of Immortality...”
“Elegiac Stanzas”
The Excursion (1814)

Yearsley, Ann

Poems on Several Occasions (1785)
A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade (1788)
The Rural Lyre (1796)

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