Introduction xvi
Editor's Note on the Fifth Edition xxiii
Editorial Principles xxiv
Acknowledgements xxv
A Romantic Timeline 1770-1851 xxviii
About the Companion Website Iiii
William Blake (1757-1827) 1
All Religions Are One (composed c.1788) 5
There Is No Natural Religion (composed c.1788) 6
The Book of Thel (1789) 7
Songs of Innocence (1789) 11
Songs of Experience (1794) 22
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790) 36
Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) 47
The First Book of Urizen (1794) 53
Letter from William Blake to the Revd Dr Trusler, 23 August 1799 (extract) 68
From 'The Pickering Manuscript' (composed 1800-4) 69
From 'Milton' (composed 1803-8) 72
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798) 73
Advertisement (by Wordsworth, working from Coleridge's notes, composed June 1798) 75
The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, in Seven Parts (by Coleridge, composed November 1797-March 1798) 76
The Foster-Mother's Tale: A Dramatic Fragment (by Coleridge, extracted from Osorio, composed April-September 1797) 94
Lines Left upon a Seat in a Yew-Tree which Stands near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a Desolate Part of the Shore, yet Commanding a Beautiful Prospect (by Wordsworth, composed April-May 1797) 96
The Nightingale; A Conversational Poem, Written in April 1798 (by Coleridge, composed April-May 1798) 97
The Female Vagrant (by Wordsworth, derived from 'Salisbury Plain', initially composed late summer 1793 and revised for inclusion in Lyrical Ballads, 1798) 100
Goody Blake and Harry Gill: A True Story (by Wordsworth, composed 7-13 March 1798) 107
Lines Written at a Small Distance from My House, and Sent by My Little Boy to the Person to Whom They are Addressed (by Wordsworth, composed 1-9 March 1798) 110
Simon Lee, the Old Huntsman, with an Incident in which He Was Concerned (by Wordsworth, composed between March and 16 May 1798) 111
Anecdote for Fathers, Showing How the Art of Lying May Be Taught (by Wordsworth, composed between April and 16 May 1798) 114
We Are Seven (by Wordsworth, composed between April and 16 May 1798) 116
Lines Written in Early Spring (by Wordsworth, composed c.12 April 1798) 118
The Thorn (by Wordsworth, composed between 19 March and 20 April 1798) 119
The Last of the Flock (by Wordsworth, composed between March and 16 May 1798) 125
The Dungeon (by Coleridge, extracted from Osorio, composed April-September 1797) 128
The Mad Mother (by Wordsworth, composed between March and 16 May 1798) 129
The Idiot Boy (by Wordsworth, composed between March and 16 May 1798) 131
Lines Written near Richmond, upon the Thames, at Evening (by Wordsworth, derived from a sonnet written 1789, complete in this form by 29 March 1797) 142
Expostulation and Reply (by Wordsworth, composed probably 23 May 1798) 143
The Tables Turned: An Evening Scene, on the Same Subject (by Wordsworth, composed probably 23 May 1798) 144
Old Man Travelling; Animal Tranquillity and Decay, A Sketch (by Wordsworth, composed by June 1797) 145
The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman (by Wordsworth, composed between early March and 16 May 1798) 146
The Convict (by Wordsworth, composed between 21 March and October 1796) 148
Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, 13 July 1798 (by Wordsworth, composed 10-13 July 1798) 149
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) 153
A Night-Piece 157
The Discharged Soldier 158
The Ruined Cottage 162
The Pedlar 174
The Two-Part Prelude 183
There Was a Boy 206
Nutting 207
Strange Fits of Passion I Have Known 208
Song 209
A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal 210
Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower 210
The Brothers: A Pastoral Poem 211
Preface to Lyrical Ballads 223
Note to 'The Thorn' 232
Note to Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' 234
Michael: A Pastoral Poem 234
I Travelled among Unknown Men 246
Preface to Lyrical Ballads 246
To H.C., Six Years Old 248
The Rainbow 249
These Chairs They Have No Words to Utter 249
Resolution and Independence 250
I Grieved for Buonaparte 254
The World Is too Much with Us 254
Composed upon Westminster Bridge, 3 September 1802 255
To Toussaint L'Ouverture 255
It Is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free 256
1 September 1802 256
London 1802 257
Great Men Have Been among Us 257
Ode 258
Daffodils 262
Stepping Westward 263
The Solitary Reaper 264
Elegiac Stanzas, Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont 265
Star Gazers 267
St Paul's 268
Surprised by Joy - Impatient as the Wind 268
Conclusion to The River Duddon 269
Airey-Force Valley 269
Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg 270
From The Fenwick Notes (dictated 1843) 271
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) 273
To the River Otter 277
Letter from S.T. Coleridge to George Dyer, 10 March 1795 (extract) 278
The Eolian Harp. Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire (1834) 279
Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement 281
Religious Musings (extract) 283
Letter from S.T. Coleridge to John Thelwall, 19 November 1796 (extract) 285
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison (1834) 285
Letter from S.T. Coleridge to John Thelwall, 14 October 1797 (extract) 288
Letter from S.T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 16 October 1797 (extract) 288
Of the Fragment of 'Kubla Khan' (1816) 289
Kubla Khan (1816) 290
Frost at Midnight (1834) 291
Christabel 293
Letter from S.T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 6 April 1799 (extract) 310
The Day-Dream 310
The Picture; or, The Lover's Resolution 311
A Letter to Sara Hutchinson, 4 April 1802. Sunday Evening 315
A Day-Dream 324
Dejection: An Ode 325
The Pains of Sleep (1816) 328
Letter from S.T. Coleridge to Thomas Poole, 14 October 1803 (extract) 330
Letter from S.T. Coleridge to Richard Sharp, 15 January 1804 (extract) 330
To William Wordsworth. Lines Composed, for the Greater Part, on the Night on which He Finished the Recitation of His Poem in Thirteen Books, concerning the Growth and History of His Own Mind, January 1807, Coleorton, near Ashby-de-la-Zouch 331
Letter from S.T. Coleridge to William Wordsworth, 30 May 1815 (extract) 334
From Biographia Literaria (1817) 336
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In Seven Parts (1817) 337
From Table Talk 354
The Ancient Mariner 354
The True Way for a Poet 354
The Recluse 355
Keats 355
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (1788-1824) 356
She Walks in Beauty 363
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: Canto III 363
Prometheus 397
Stanzas to Augusta 398
Epistle to Augusta 400
Darkness 404
Letter from Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 28 February 1817 (extract; including 'So We'll Go No More a-Roving') 406
Don Juan 407
Letter from Lord Byron to Douglas Kinnaird, 26 October 1819 (extract) 509
Messalonghi, 22 January 1824. On This Day I Complete My Thirty- Sixth Year 509
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) 511
To Wordsworth 517
Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude 517
Journal- Letter from Percy Bysshe Shelley to Thomas Love Peacock, 22 July to 2 August 1816 (extract) 535
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 537
Mont Blanc. Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni 539
Ozymandias 543
On Love 543
Lines Written among the Euganean Hills, October 1818 545
Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples 554
The Mask of Anarchy. Written on the Occasion of the Massacre at Manchester 555
Ode to the West Wind 565
England in 1819 568
Lift Not the Painted Veil 568
On Life 569
To a Skylark 571
A Defence of Poetry; or, Remarks Suggested by an Essay Entitled 'The Four Ages of Poetry' (extracts) 574
Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. 587
Music, When Soft Voices Die 604
When Passion's Trance Is Overpast 604
To Edward Williams 605
With a Guitar, to Jane 606
John Keats (1795-1821) 609
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer 616
Addressed to Haydon 617
On the Grasshopper and the Cricket 617
From 'Endymion: A Poetic Romance', Book I 618
Letter from John Keats to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817 (extract) 622
Letter from John Keats to George and Tom Keats, 21 December 1817 (extract) 623
On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again 624
When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be 625
Letter from John Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 February 1818 (extract) 625
Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil: A Story from Boccaccio 626
Letter from John Keats to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 May 1818 (extract) 642
Letter from John Keats to Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 1818 643
Hyperion: A Fragment 644
The Eve of St Agnes 665
Journal-Letter from John Keats to George and Georgiana Keats, 14 February-3 May 1819 (extracts) 676
La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad 677
Ode to Psyche 679
Ode to a Nightingale 681
Ode on a Grecian Urn 683
Ode on Melancholy 685
Ode on Indolence 686
Lamia 688
To Autumn 704
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream 705
Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art 718
This Living Hand, Now Warm and Capable 718
Index of First Lines 719
Index to Headnotes and Notes 722
