THE NEW PENGUIN BOOK OF. Romantic Poetry. Edited by Jonathan and Jessica Wordsworth PENGUIN BOOKS

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1 THE NEW PENGUIN BOOK OF Romantic Poetry Edited by Jonathan and Jessica Wordsworth PENGUIN BOOKS

2 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 Sonnets 1784) 4 2. ROBERT BURNS: To a Mountain Daisy (1786) 5 3. MARY ROBINSON: A London Summer Morning (1794; publ. 1804) 7 4. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Kubla Khan (Nov. 1797; publ. 1816) 8 5. CHARLES LAMB: Old Familiar Faces (1798) WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Lucy Poems (winter ; 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.) THOMAS CAMPBELL: Hohenliuden (1801; publ. 1809) ROBERT SOUTHEY: The Inchcape Rock (1803) WILLIAM BLAKE: And Did Those Feet (1802-4; engraved Milton c. 1808) WALTER SCOTT: Lochinvar (Marmion 1808) THOMAS MOORE: Oh! Blame Not the Bard (1810) LORD BYRON: 'Revelry by Night' (Gkilde Harold III, stanzas 16-18, 21-8) April 1816; publ. Dec JOHN KEATS: To Autumn (Sept. 1819; publ. 1820) 25

3 14. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: To a Skylark (1820) JAMES HOGG: When the Kye Comes Hame (1823) JOHN CLARE: The Shepherd's Calendar (July, ) c. 1824; publ THOMAS HOOD: I Remember, I Remember (1826) FELICIA HEMANS: Casabianca (1824; publ. 1826) LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: Lines of Life (1829) CAROLINE NORTON: My Arab Steed (1830) JAMES LEIGH HUNT: Abou Ben Adhem (1834) 39 //. Narratives of Love MARY ROBINSON: from Sappho andphaon (1796) WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Ruined Cottage (1797-8; Excursion 1814 from MS 1968) SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Love (Nov. 1799; publ. 1817) WILLIAM BLAKE: (i) The Crystal Cabinet (c. 1803; from MS 1905) 67 (ii) The Mental Traveller (c. 1803; from MS 1905) MARY TIGHE: 'A Glimpse of Love' (Psyche I, stanzas 16-32) ; publ THOMAS CAMPBELL: Gertrude of Wyoming II (1809) LORD BYRON: The Bride of Abydos (stanzas 22-7) PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Alastor (lines ) JAMES LEIGH HUNT: Paulo and Francesca (Rimini III, lines ) jio. THOMAS MOORE: The Fire-Worshippers (from Lalla Rookh III, lines ) JOHN KEATS: The Eve of St Agnes (Jan.-Feb. 1819; publ. 1820) LORD BYRON: Juan and Haidee (from Don Juan II-IV) LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: The Indian Bride (Improvisatrice 1823) FELICIA HEMANS: Arabella Stuart (Records of Woman 1828) CAROLINE NORTON: The Faithless Knight (1830) 138 ///. Romantic Solitude, Suffering and Endurance WILLIAM COWPER: Crazy Kate (Task I, ) JOANNA BAILLIE: The Storm-Beat Maid (1790) CHARLOTTE SMITH: The Female Exile (Nov. 1792; publ. 1797) WILLIAM BLAKE: Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) ROBERT SOUTHEY: Mary the Maid of the Inn (1797) 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

4 (iii) The Mad Mother (Lyrical Ballads 1798) 162 (iv) Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman (Lyrical Ballads 1798) 164 (v) Michael (lines ) Lyrical Ballads (vi) The Leech-Gatherer (spring 1802; publ. 1807) 173 (vii) The London Beggar (1805 Prelude VII, ) publ. 1850/ from MS SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: 'Alone, Alone' (i) The Ancient Mariner (Lyrical Ballads 1798) 178 (ii) Pains of Sleep (Sept. 1803; publ. 1816) THOMAS CAMPBELL: Lord Ullin's Daughter (1809) MARY BRYAN: The Visit (lines ) LORD BYRON: The Prisoner of Chillon (1816) JOHN KEATS: Isabella, or The Pot of Basil (stanzas 32-63) April 1818; publ PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Final Moments (The CenciV, scenes iii-iv) LORD BYRON: The Shipwreck (from Don Juan II) THOMAS HOOD: The Dream of Eugene Aram (1826) FELICIA HEMANS: Indian Woman's Death Song (Records of Woman 1828) LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: She Sat Alone Beside Her Hearth (c. 1835; publ. 1839) 242 IV. Ennobling Interchange: Man and Nature ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD: (i) The Mouse's Petition (1773) 248 (ii) from A Summer's Evening's Meditation (lines 17-98) WILLIAM COWPER: The Winter Evening (Task IV, ) ROBERT BURNS: To a Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, November 1785 (1786) 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) 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 Dec. 1799; publ. 1850/from MS 1972) 269 (iv) Statue Horse (Feb. 1804; from MS 1969) 292

5 (v) Climbing of Snowdon (1805 Prelude XIII, 10-73) Feb. 1804; publ. 1850/from MS (vi) Crossing the Alps (1805 Prelude VI, ) March 1804; publ. 1850/from MS WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES: from Coombe Ellen (1798) CHARLOTTE SMITH: Beachy Head (lines ) c. 1805; publ AMELIA OPIE: Stanzas Written Under Aeolus' Harp (1808) ISABELLA LICKBARROW: On Esthwaite Water (1814) LORD BYRON: 'Concentred in a Life Intense' (i) Lake Leman (from Childe Harold III) June 1816; publ. Dec (ii) Epistle to Augusta (July 1816; publ. 1830) 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, ) c. April 1817; publ (ii) Epistle toj. H. Reynolds (lines ) March 1818; publ SAMUEL PALMER: Twilight Time (lines 1-24) c. 1827; fr m MS ^ JOHN CLARE: This Leaning Tree with Ivy Overhung (early 1830s; from MS 1979) FELICIA HEMANS: Remembrance of Nature (1835; publ. 1838) LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: (i) Scale Force, Cumberland (c. 1836; publ. 1839) 322 (ii) Fountains Abbey (c. 1836; publ. 1839) 323 V. Romantic Odes ROBERT BURNS: Despondency, An Ode (1786) WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Immortality Ode (spring 1802/ Feb. 1804; publ. 1807) SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Dejection: An Ode (summer 1802; publ. 4 Oct.) PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (July 1816; publ. Jan. 1817) 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

6 6. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Ode to the West Wind (Oct. 1819; publ. 1820) 347 VI. Romantic Lyric and Song WILLIAM BLAKE: Song ('How sweet I roamed') Poetical Sketches ROBERT BURNS: SongS (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) 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 SUSANNA BLAMIRE: 363 (i) The Siller Croun (1790; publ. 1842) 363 (ii) Oh Bid Me Not to Wander (c. 1792; publ. 1842) 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) ANN BATTEN CRISTALL: Through Springtime Walks (1795) MARY ROBINSON: A Thousand Torments (1797) 374

7 8. THOMAS CAMPBELL: Written on Visiting a Scene in Argyllshire (c. 1798; publ. 1800) 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 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Lyrics (i) Something Childish, but Very Natural (April 1799; publ. 1800) 388 (ii) The Keepsake (1802) 388 (iii) Answer to a Child's Question (1802) THOMAS MOORE: Away with this Pouting (1801) CHARLOTTE SMITH: A Walk by the Water (1804) MARY TIGHE: Address to My Harp (c. 1804; publ. 1811) DOROTHY WORDSWORTH: A Cottage in Grasmere Vale (c. 1805; from MS 1882) JANE TAYLOR: The Star (1806) 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') (iv) Stanzas for Music ('There's not a joy') (v) We'll Go No MoreA-Roving (28 Feb. 1817; publ. 1830) 397 (vi) The Isles of Greece (Don Juan, Canto III, 86-7) (vii) On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year (22 Jan. 1824; publ. 1824) PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Lyric Poetry l8l7~21 (i) To Constantia, Singing (late 1817; publ. Jan. 1818) 402

8 (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) JOHN KEATS: Lyrics (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 10 (v) This Living Hand (c. Nov. 1819; from MS 1898) JOHN CLARE: Song ('Sad was the day') THOMAS HOOD: Ruth (1827) CHARLES LAMB: (i) To Louisa Martin, Whom I Used to Call 'Monkey' (1827) 413 (ii) In My Own Album (1829) 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) CAROLINE NORTON: Dreams (1830) JAMES HOGG: W,hen Maggy Gangs Away (1831) 417 VII. The Romantic Sonnet THOMAS WARTON: TO the River Loden (1777) CHARLOTTE SMITH: from Elegiac Sonnets, 1784 (i) The Partial Muse 422 (ii) Should the Lone Wanderer WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES: from Fourteen Sonnets, 1789 (i) At a Village in Scotland 423 (ii) To the River Itchin SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: (i) Pantisocracy (1794) 424 (ii) To the River Otter (1796) MARY ROBINSON: from Sappho and Phaon (1796) (i) Sappho's Conjectures 425 (ii) Her Address to the Moon 426 (iii) To Phaon CHARLES LAMB: When Last I Roved (1797) ROBERT SOUTHEY: To a Brook Near the Village ofcorston (1797) CHARLES LLOYD: On the Death ofpriscilla Farmer (1797) ANNA SEWARD: By Derwent's Rapid Stream (1799) 428

9 XIV CONTENTS 10. MARY TIGHE: Written at Scarborough (1799) 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 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) MARY TIGHE: TO Death (c. 1805; publ. 1811) JAMES LEIGH HUNT: Sonnets, (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) MARY BRYAN: To My Brother (1815) LORD BYRON: Sonnets Written at the Villa Diodati, July 1816 (i) Sonnet on Chillon (1816) 437 (ii) Sonnet to Lake Leman (1816) JOHN KEATS: Sonnets of (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) HORACE SMITH: In Egypt's Sandy Silence (Dec. 1817; publ. 1 Feb.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) JOHN CLARE: (i) Give Me the Gloomy Walk ( ; publ. 1820) 442 (ii) A Wish ( ; publ. 1828) 443

10 21. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The River Duddon: Afterthought (1820) SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: To Nature (1820) THOMAS HOOD: Written in Keats' 'Endymion' (London Magazine 1823) HARTLEY COLERIDGE: Long Time a Child (1833) FELICIA HEMANS: TO a Distant Scene (1834) CAROLINE NORTON: Be Frank with Me (1830) LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: The Castle of Ckillon (1835) 446 VIII. The Gothic and Surreal WILLIAM BLAKE: Fair Elenor (Poetical Sketches 1783) HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS: Part of an Irregular Fragment Found in a Dark Passage of the Tower (1786) ROBERT BURNS: Tarn 0'Shanter (late 1790; publ. 1791) GOTTFRIED BURGER (trans. WILLIAM TAYLOR, 1796): (i) Lenora 459 (ii) The Lass of Fair Wone MATTHEW 'MONK' LEWIS: Alonzo the Brave and the Fair Imogine (1796) WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Thorn (March 1798; publ. Lyrical Ballads) SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Christabel, Part I (April 1798; publ. 1816) ROBERT SOUTHEY: The Old Woman of Berkeley (1799) MARY ROBINSON: The Haunted Beach (1800) WALTER SCOTT: The Lay of the Last Minstrel (Canto II, stanzas 1-23) JAMES HOGG: The Wife ofcrowle (1807) GEORGE CRABBE: Peter Grimes (1810) LORD BYRON: Darkness (1816) JOHN KEATS: La Belle Dame Sans Merci (21 April 1819; Indicator, May 1820) JOHN CLARE: Superstition's Dream (lines 13-68) THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES: The Bride's Tragedy II, scene iv, lines 1-64(1822) THOMAS CAMPBELL: The Last Man (1823) THOMAS HOOD: The Last Man (1826; publ. 1829) 523 IX. Romantic Comedy and Satire WILLIAM BLAKE: Songs from An Island in the Moon (c. 1784; from MS 1907) (i) Old Corruption 532 (ii) Lo, the Bat 533

11 (iii) Village Cricket ROBERT BURNS: Holy Willie's Prayer (1786) MARY ROBINSON: January, 1795 (publ. 1796) 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) JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE AND GEORGE CANNING: from The Rovers (June 1798) ROBERT SOUTHEY AND SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: The Devil's Thoughts (1799) GEORGE CRABBE: Procrastination (1812) JAMES SMITH: The Baby's Debut, by W. W. (Rejected Addresses 1812) JAMES HOGG: from The Poetic Mirror (1816) (i) James Rigg (lines 1-42) 572 (ii) Isabelle JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE: 'Irrational Gigantic Anger' (Whistlecraft, Canto III, stanzas 1-7,15-19) JOHN KEATS: Old Meg She Was a Gypsy (2 July 1818; publ. 1838) PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: Sin (Peter Bell the Third IV, 1-65) 1819; publ LORD BYRON: Juan and Julia (Don Juan I, stanzas ,133-87) ROBERT SOUTHEY: The Cataract oflodore (1823) THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK: The Legend of Manor Hall (c. 1824; publ. 1837) THOMAS HOOD: Mary's Ghost (1826) CAROLINE NORTON: First Love (1830) 616 X. Protest and Politics WILLIAM COWPER: Sweet Meat Has Sour Sauce (1788) HANNAH MORE: from Slavery: A Poem (1788) ANN YEARSLEY: Death of Luco (from On the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade) ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD: On the Expected General Rising of the French Nation in 1792 (publ. 1825) HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS: France 1792 (from To Dr Moore) WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: The Female Vagrant, stanzas 33-6, (1793-4; publ. Lyrical Ballads 1798) ROBERT BURNS: For A' That and A' That (1795) ROBERT SOUTHEY: Poems on the Slave Trade (April 1798; publ. 1799) 630

12 XV11 CONTENTS 9. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: (i) France: An Ode (1798) 631 (ii) 'Dainty Terms for Fratricide' (Fears in Solitude, 90-93, ) ROBERT SOUTHEY: The Battle of Blenheim (1799) ROBERT BLOOMFIELD: The Farmer's Boy (from Summer) 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, , ) 639 (ii) A Tourist's Unconcern: Paris, Dec (IX, 40-71) 640 (iii) Among Royalists: Blois, spring 1792 (IX, ) 641 (iv) 'A Patriot': Blois, early summer 1792 (IX, 294-9, ) 642 (v) 'Sleep No More': Paris, Oct (X, 24-82) 643 (vi) War and Alienation: London and Wales, (X, ) 644 (vii) 'Eternal Justice': Morecambe Sands, Aug (X, , ) JOHN CLARE: (i) Helpstone (lines ) c. 1813; publ (ii) Lamentations of Round-Oak Waters (lines ) 1818; publ JAMES LEIGH HUNT: from The St James's Phenomenon (1814) LORD BYRON: Napoleon's Farewell (1814; publ. 1816) PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: (i) The Mask of Anarchy (Sept. 1819; publ. 1832) 652 (ii) England in 1819 (23 Dec; publ. 1839) LORD BYRON: from The Vision of Judgment (1822) THOMAS HOOD: Ode to H. Bodkin, Esq., Secretary to the Society for the Suppression of Mendicity (1824) LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: The Factory (1835) CAROLINE NORTON: A Voicefrom the Factories (stanzas 34-48) XL Poets in Relationship WILLIAM BLAKE: and Catherine Blake, I Love the Jocund Dance (Poetical Sketches 1783) 684

13 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) CHARLOTTE SMITH: To My Children (1788) MARY ROBINSON: and General Sir Banastre Tarleton, Written Between Dover and Calais, July 1792 (1793) WILLIAM COWPER: and Mary Unwin, To Mary (autumn 1793; publ. 1803) CHARLES LAMB: To Mary Ann Lamb (1795; publ. 1797) 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) 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 (iv) The Sparrow's Nest (spring 1802; publ. 1807) 707 (v) 'Child of My Parents' (1805 Prelude XIII ) publ. 1850/ from MS (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 ) publ. 1850/from MS (rv) and Catharine Wordsworth, Surprised by Joy (c ; publ. 1815) 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, (1817) 712 (m) and Teresa Viviani, Epipsychidion (1821) 714

14 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) 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') (ii) Stanzas to Augusta ('Though the day of my destiny') (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) 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) JOHN CLARE: and Mary Joyce (i) Song ('Mary leave thy lowly cot') ; publ (ii) My Mary (1820) 744 (iii) Ballad ('Mary, fate lent me a moment') ; publ FELICIA HEMANS: The Dreaming Child (1830) CAROLINE NORTON: (I) and her brother, Recollections (1830) 749 (II) and her children, The Mother's Heart (1836) LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: To My Brother (1835) 752 XII. On Poets and Poetry MARY SCOTT: on Anna Laetitia Barbauld (nee Aikin), from The Female Advocate (1774) 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) HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS: Sonnet on Reading 'The Mountain Daisy' by Burns (c. 1787; publ. 1791) JOANNA BAILLIE: An Address to the Muses (lines ) WILLIAM BLAKE: (i) Preface to Europe, A Prophecy (engraved 1794) 764

15 (ii) 'I Come In Self-Annihilation' (Milton plate 41, 2-28) c. 1804, engraved c (iii) 'Trembling I Sit' (Jerusalem, plate 5,16-20) c ; engraved c 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' WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Thoughts on Poetic Imagination, (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 ; publ. 1850/from MS 1926) 772 (iv) Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peek Castle in a Storm (May-June 1806; publ. 1807) ANNA LAETITIA BARBAULD: To Mr Coleridge (1799) MARY ROBINSON: (i) Ode Inscribed to the Infant Son ofs. T. Coleridge, Esq., Born 14 Sept 1800 (lines ) Sept 1800; publ (ii) To the Poet Coleridge (Oct. 1800; publ. 1806) 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, ) 1804; publ. 1850/ from MS (iii) A Complaint (c. Dec. 1806; publ. 1807) MARY TIGHE: 'Dreams of Delight, Farewell' (Psyche, concluding stanzas) ; publ SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: To William Wordsworth (Jan. 1807; publ. 1817) LORD BYRON: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (lines 1-38, ) JAMES LEIGH HUNT: Feast of the Poets (lines ) 1811; expanded LORD BYRON: "Tis to Create' (Childe Harold III, stanzas 3-6) April 1816; publ PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: To Wordsworth (1816) JOHN KEATS: 792 (i) Sleep and Poetry (lines ) (ii) The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream (Canto I, lines 1-27, ) July-Sept. 1819;

16 l8. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY: 799 (i) Julian and Maddalo: A Conversation (lines 1-67) Oct. 1818; publ (ii) Adonais: An Elegy on the Death ofjohn Keats (stanzas 1-8, 39-58) lg. LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON: Sappho's Song (1824) SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE: Work Without H'ope (21 Feb. 1825; publ. 1828) THOMAS HOOD: False Poets and True (1827) 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) WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: Extempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg (1835) 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